Art Quote by Simon Greenleaf

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

— Charles Spurgeon

Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

— Orson F. Whitney

True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly shown by…

— John Cassian

“Jesus from the moment he first appears in Galilee is a sign of contradiction, fomenting revolution through telling the truth about the state of…

— Megan McKenna

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

— Thomas Carlyle

“The highest men are calm, silent and unknown...The true masters seldom reveal themselves, except in the vibrations the leave behind, and upon which the…

— Tom Robbins

But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

— Luc de Clapiers

“In the first ages they were wise men; in the middle age, madmen; in these latter ages, cunning men: in the earliest time they…

— Daniel Defoe

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what…

— Wallace D. Wattles

“It was even so with those, chosen from among the people, who were called disciples of Jesus. Most of them have heard the story…

— John Emmett Richardson