I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man. — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed. — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against infidelity and… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
You are a free man, and let no organization come between you and your best interests. Do not let any man, or any body of men, tell you where you shall work, or where you shall not work, when you shall work, or when, you shall not work. If a man wants to belong to a labor organization, let him… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in his hands, and the attorney goes into the public records and finds everything right for three or four years back; but after a time he comes to a break in the title. So he finds that… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the learned men of the world and great men of the world come out from their studies and their laboratories and their palaces, and cry, "Away with this man! Away with him!" The most bitter hostility… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a vast pyramid.… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
A mother is a bank where I deposit all my worries and hurts — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
