ZZ Ward Quotes
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.
The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.
No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.
There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.
Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.
If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.
The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.
Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?
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.
Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.
When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.
Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.
His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.