Abraham Quotes

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

Don't compare yourself to others you have no idea what their journey is all about.

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

The key of all life is value. Value is not what you get, it's what you give.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Honor is better than honors.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live.

We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.

The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

What one can be, one must be!

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.