CM. Ward Quotes

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

I have decided not to do the spa. Too time consuming.

Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent.

I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

One of the things I've suggested is that it may be that more 9/11s are necessary.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

I grew up kind of fast. I had a lot of responsibilities-cleaning the house, going to school on my own, making good grades on my own

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

Some people are proud of their humility.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it.

Believe while others are doubting.

Christmas is more that a time of festivities, family, and friends; it is a season of generosity, gladness, and gratitude.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

This bright new year is given me

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

Make what you most need to find

I believe in myself. I believe in my vision, my life, my talent, my art. More than anyone. No one can take that away from me.

Thank you for caring for my brother." He took his sunglasses off. And looked at her with total adoration.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.