Samuel Quotes
If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver.
Our bodies are simply our shells, the package for the spirit and the soul.
The problem we have in the world is that most people don’t take the time to develop themselves, even though they’ll readily spend that time on many useless and irrelevant things.
I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.
A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Desire isn’t appeased by its object, only irritated into something more than desire that can join with the stars to inform the chaotic heavens with sense.
when the life gives you lemon, simply sell them and buy something sweet like chocolate
Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-law.
Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.
Sometimes the more you try to focus on something, the less you really see it's beauty. - Burnum (Aboriginal Guide)
Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.
You tell a soul or even God Hisself what you seen when the rougarou changes, or even that you met one, and a year ain’t passed, you’re liable to change to one yourself.
Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).
It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s
I have no time in the world but the time in which I amand that lasts a moment and passes like a cloud.
We never realize the power of real love unless we witness or experience a transaction, because real love costs.
Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language.
It is a dangerous trap to believe that our search is over because we have gained all the riches we are going to have.
Never take literally what is said out of anger! They are said just to hurt you – sometimes the opposite could be true!
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
Through Christ we have a new identity--we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity back.
As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.- (1772-1834)
Those who clamour for true greatness are not swayed by the glamour of its treasures
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.
The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.
Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It's a national tradition.
Heaven will happen someday, but let's not wait. Heaven can start now.
With different changes but the same plot, sometimes our story has already unfolded. It's just trapped in the pages of ink and paper. God is waiting in His Word.
Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.
You call yourself an Atheist because you don’t believe in the supernatural. But one thing you do not realize is that your unbelief in the supernatural is a belief in its own nature.
If a person gets rid of any weight, or girth, or fat, it isn't lost--it is fought off, beaten off.
When you come to examine into the actuating motives for any line of human endeavor you will find that vanity figures about ninety per cent directly or indirectly, in the assay.
We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.
The noise distorts the truth but we can break through, we need to base our foundation upon the Rock.
Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.
Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes?
In life, there are dreary, empty days and there are exciting, full days. You will experience both, for you cannot choose one above the other. May your full days be many.
The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.
Men dressed in an embroidery of excuses are not fit to enter the colorful chamber of champions
Anger is a certified destroyer, from its birth till now, it is yet to build a lasting legacy
If you can strike the cord of consistency on the guitar of life, the world will dance to your music of greatness
Opportunity has got numerous appointments to keep, so it can't be held to ransom at your doorstep. Just a knock is enough for a man who is alert and expectant!
