Lael Brainard Quotes

“President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.”

“Such fatigues and hardship as these serve to wean me more from the earth; and, I trust, will make heaven the sweeter. Formerly, when I was thus exposed to cold, rain, etc., I was ready to please myself with the thoughts of enjoying a comfortable house, a warm fire, and other outward comforts; but now these have less place in my heart (through the grace of God) and my eye is more to God for comfort. In this world I expect tribulation; and it does not now, as formerly, appear strange to me; I don’t in such seasons of difficulty flatter myself that it will be better hereafter; but rather think how much worse it might be; how much greater trials others of God’s children have endured; and how much greater are yet perhaps reserved for me. Blessed be God that he makes the comfort to me, under my sharpest trials; and scarce ever lets these thoughts be attended with terror or melancholy; but they are attended frequently with great joy.”

“Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter.”

“I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.”

“I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.”

“I see not a step before me as I tread on another year But I've left the Past in God's keeping the Future His mercy shall clear And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.”

“We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.”

“Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.”

“Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.”

“The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.”