Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this – when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters – when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing – peace is the measure.
I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.
Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit. Max Lucado
For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal.