E.S. Russell Quotes

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!

The only important statistic is the final score.

In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children.

I credit chiropractic care for maintaining my health to keep up the pace of my career.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that field is.

Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.

It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand.

Genius awaits him who listens. The messages of genius are for the Soul of man. The senses of man comprehend them not.

Pollinate the world with the pure love of Christ.

Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success.

You don't need a record deal. You'll have the industry begging for you, when you build your buzz.

I have a certain taste, and I might be like, 'I like this,' when other people are like, 'I can't wear that.' And in basketball, I might be able to do things other guys might not.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

You need to learn to live with your mistakes. And you need to be in a position to say No once in a while. It's important in life, and it's important for any career that you want to pursue.

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.

Unlikely things to see in a Valentine's card - "I may be dyslexic but that doesn't mean I don't vole you."

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

I don't know the difference between a warm color and a cool one.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

What's the opposite of opposite? Consider yourself bamboozled!

It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

How you deal with life’s trials is part of the development of your faith.