I Samuel Quotes

The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.

But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.

The only sin is the sin of being born.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.

I think I came here as a priest... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven; heresy must be eliminated.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Don't let your opinion sway your judgment.

The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

Reason and truth will prevail at last

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

What is that unforgettable line?

An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

Passion does not compensate for ignorance.

Tell them to stand closer apart.

It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.