16 quotes found
“The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous is its general nature; the more pains its constitution involves, the darker and more malign its to...”
“Small truths have greater power than big lies.”
“Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself.”
“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
“Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.”
“The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.”
“Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.”
“Instead of fleeing God scrutiny, David welcomed it. It's like he was saying, "Look God, since I can't hide from you, since you know my very thoughts before I think them, I want you to fully know me...”
“I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.”
“It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.”
“Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.”
“There is too wide a gap, for most of us, between what we say and what we mean. Between our words and our thoughts. The first thing the Prophet Isaiah said when he saw the living and exalted God was...”
“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at...”
“What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.”
“A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, headmired in others, but he could not acquire it himself.”
