CM. Ward Quotes
The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.
He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!
Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.
A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.
A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet.
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.
A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?
There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.
When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
I came to you, Jane. Every night this week, I came to you. I didn't want you to be alone. And I didn't want to sleep without you." -Vishous
As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.
