Will Cotton Quotes

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.

Toleration made the world anti-Christian.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.

Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

I'm convinced nonviolence can be successful in working for positive change in our relations with other countries right now.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

Little Walter was the best harmonica player I ever heard in my life.

The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.

I just want everybody to have a good time, because I'm goin' out to have a good time. I'm going to go have some fun.

Men are simple creatures. It doesn't take much to please us. The problem is women.

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

I never go ballistic, I'm always measured and tempered.

The limitation of the vlog format is that it may seem to give people enough, when they actually have no real autonomy.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.

I stew all night in my own grease.

If I don't feel it, I can't play it.

I think that the role of curating an exhibition is to reanimate history and make it relevant to a contemporary viewer.

Your image is your currency in this world.

We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.

You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day.

Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

The Islamic State is dangerous, a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic is even more so.