E.S. Russell Quotes

I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.

You're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT

As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up.

When you a 'has-been', just think of where you HAS-BEEN.

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.

The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity.

I hate having long hair. It's like walking around with a dead koala on your back!

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.

The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.

I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.

For me there has never been an amount of money that makes it worth doing something that is not fun.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

Increase your faith. Proclaim your faith. Let your faith show.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.

When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

The cube and the sphere are the sole working tools of creation

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

I don't believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God's way of communicating with us.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best

Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.

Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

I think God cares about everything he created.

The universe gives to those who ask without favor. The electric plug which connects you is desire.

If we want to find God, we have to look within, into the realm of deep mind-a realm that science has yet to explore.