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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.
I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.
What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.
We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.
People have labeled me homophobic. If I was homophobic, I wouldn't have friends who are gay and lesbian, so that can't be true.
Christ is not only a person, Christ is a place. When you come into Christ, you don't come into a person; you come into a place.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.
There is an uncalculating, unaffected, unbound excitement in us when the Spirit is given freedom to express Himself through us.
I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
There can be no higher enjoyment found in this world that is found in pulling souls out of the fire and bringing them to Christ.
And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.