“I carry my adornments on my soul. I do not dress up like a popinjay; But inwardly, I keep my daintiness. I… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow… — George McDougall Copy Share Image
In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,'… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed,… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Discipleship is rooted in a deep belief in the universal reign of God through Christ. To be a disciple is to acknowledge… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I… — Anne Reeve Aldrich Copy Share Image
We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God's love for the individual is displayed by those… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded… — Rumi Copy Share Image
His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women in at… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no… — Maria Theresa Copy Share Image
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it… — William James Copy Share Image
The great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for… — Gary Blair Copy Share Image
