Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The voice of God is heard from heaven, declaring the day and hour of Jesus' coming, and delivering the everlasting covenant to… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Count not the cost of honour to the dead!The tribute that a mighty nation paysTo those who loved her well in former… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Only when self moves out of the way can His spectacular glory come cascading through your life. When Jesus is in His… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy… — James Shirley Copy Share Image
Spring had come. Despite the many wet and gusty days which April had thrust in rude challenge upon reluctant May, in the… — Ralph Connor Copy Share Image
Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I… — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
What you think now about the cross of Christ, I cannot tell; but I can wish you nothing better than this -… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers,… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
By entering through faith into what God has always wanted to do for us - set us right with him, make us… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force ,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Personal sympathy has helped me on very much. My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Great Iraqi men and women, members of the families of the martyrs, You have offered the homeland the best thing you could… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
God gave man the challenge of raw materials not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
The suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'.… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love,… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
