Without my Savior, I am nothing.
He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.
The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.
God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.
I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.
The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.
Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.
Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance.
For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.
Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with “God,” nothing but questions follow.
Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.
And in the afternoon they entered a land – but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction – to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.
Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
90. Being Set at meat Scratch not, neither Spit, Cough, or blow your Nose except there’s a Necessity for it.
Creationists make it sound like a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American author.
Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.