Evelyn Underhill Famous Quotes
"Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again."
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Evelyn Underhill Quotations
"The most painful death in all the world is the death of a child. When a child dies, when one child dies-not the 11 per 1,000 we talk about statistically, but the one that a mother held briefly in her arms-he leaves an empty place in a parent's heart that will never heal."
Thomas H Kean
Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'"
Martin Luther King Jr
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
G K Chesterton
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
"If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself."
Horace
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.
La Rochefoucauld
It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.
Unknown
"Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head."
William Shakespeare
There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities.
Paxton Blair