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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
If your neighbors did an analysis of your life, what would they learn about the kingdom?
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
Some people feel like I'm arrogant. It's unfortunate, because people don't know my heart.
If at the age of thirty you don't know what God has called you to do; you may never know.
No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
What you see with the eyes of faith is more real than what you see with your optical eyes.
All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.
The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
James Bevel could do more with young people than any human being on the face of the earth.
Mission is both the announcement and the demonstration of the reign of God through Christ.
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.