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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.
The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners.
He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls.
As a child of God, you must realize that you are on the winning side of prophecy; until you win it is not over!
The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.
You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.
I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.
At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.
Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?
The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.
When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.
God's idea is for us to become the Word of God, in such a way that men can read the Word by looking at our lives.
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."
In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.
Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.
It's something inside his heart that's bigger than anything. He's got the heart of a lion about to grab something.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.
When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.
I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.
We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.
Your fellowship with God never came because of your righteousness. So how could your own righteousness maintain it?
There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.
The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.