J. E. B. Stuart Quotes
Yes some people say ignorant things about autism but silencing them solves nothing. They need to be educated. That's how things change.
The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.
It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down.
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.
In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.
It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.
There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
Your needs will be met once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's need.
If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child.
Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.
To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal.
The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime
Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.
If we want to live healthy relationships, according to biblical standards, it is done in the fullness of the Spirit.
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other psychoactive drugs.
Come and let the healing, cleansing rays of Calvary play upon your hearts until the very seed of evil is sterilized.
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.