Bessie-isms:

*Many dream of hearing God’s voice; how special you would feel! But you’d be less excited if you heard Him saying, We need to talk! wouldn’t you?!

*Without an excess of debt, most household budgets would pinch like a shoe three sizes too small! One suspects you’re intimating the federal government, except you can’t print money!

Quotable:

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

Andrew Carnegie