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Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.

Often, without being at all aware of it, men judge themselves, not by God's rule, but by their own.

Good things don't happen to the child of God; the child of God brings forth good things out of him.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.

There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

When I think about some of the policies that we make in this country, the policies are so self-driven.

Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

Trump's election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.

God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

I believe that everyone, regardless of their beliefs, deserves the dignity of being called by their name.

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