E.S. Russell Quotes
Every day I wake up and that’s my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon.
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence
If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.
As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion
The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.
I'm here today because God has brought me here. Jesus has brought me here...I'm with an amazing team. I believe He perfectly placed me in the right spot at the right time.
Keep studying the scriptures, keep doing the things that build your faith in Jesus Christ and then notice the wise choices you are naturally drawn to make
You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.
