CM. Ward Quotes
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.
Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.
See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.
A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.
As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.
