E.S. Russell Quotes

Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.

The Savior's way of life is good.

"We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions"

I love doing laundry! It's so satisfying. I love the way it smells. I love doing the sheets.

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access to help is just as real as when David battled his Goliath. see 1 Samuel 17.

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?

I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

Meditation helps everything.

We know too much and feel too little.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed.

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Always try to be yourself.

There's something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.

The artists are now big brands.

The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.

I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them.

When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.

I thank God and His Son, Jesus Christ, for the Restoration and its power to propel a magnificent wave of truth and righteousness across the earth.

My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that.

the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.

You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?