Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Forgiveness is God's command.

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad, and theology makes them sinful.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

''The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act it is an attitude.

Your fortune stateth: You will pioneer the first Martian colony.

Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: ''We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer.''

Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)

I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a dry martini.

I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Alma: I rather suspect her of being in love with him. Martin: Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman!

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Christian life consists of faith and charity.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

The Martian Canals were clearly the Martian's last ditch effort!

So, if the operator dials "0" does she get a busy signal?;"Jeff Martin

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?;"Harriet Martineau

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

If you're not a white male, consider sales seriously. Most employers, regardless of how sexist or racist they may be, will pay for any sales they can get. And they care little for the color or gender of the person who brings that business to the firm. Most will be glad to get the business even if it comes from a green, bisexual Martian.

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

I am happy that Lockheed Martin will participate in the air show in Plovdiv and will show the Bulgarian public the superb performance of the F-16.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled ''the bisexual defector'' in print. Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.

Q: How many Martians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: One and a half.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.