My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
Prince is from the school of James Brown, and I love James Brown because of all the great rhythms he plays.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
My father, Dennis Popham, was a very handsome, talented artist, and as my mother always reminds me, ‘someone who had wonderful style.’ He was half Samoan-German, half New Zealander, and their first date was to a Fleetwood Mac concert, which I love the thought of.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind’s search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.
Anyone who said he wasn’t afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn’t shake but inside I was shaking.
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
Nothing is given to man on earth – struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Muhammad Ali – he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon… Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
You can call it what you want: bad attitude, immature. You can say, ‘He’s a thug.’ But I’m a competitor.
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
