John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
- Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
- The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in…
- If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
- As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
- Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
- What we love to do we find time to do.
- Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
- The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
- We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
- Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
- Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
- If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which…
- Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
- To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.