ZZ Ward Quotes
Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.
We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.
No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.
There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.
If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.
When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless.
Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.
There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.
What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.