Samuel Quotes
Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.
Spiritual leaders are not made by man, nor any combination of men. Neither conferences, nor synods, nor councils can make them, but only God.
That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.
If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.
Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
