We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.
It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.
Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.
Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.
If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize a power in the voice -- surely the fault lies with the speaker, who, having attempted to secure their attention and enlighten their understandings, has failed in the attempt.
The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.
God's dreams might be bigger and better and something completely unexpected. So I just try to follow what He's go day in and day out. I'm here to live for Him no matter what that looks like or where I might be.
There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.
Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. . . but no one has for those reasons yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest.