ZZ Ward Quotes
When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.
He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.
A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.
There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.