M.J. Abraham Quotes

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

People who do not value you are worthless and those who do are priceless.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.

Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.

Geography is destiny.

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

You can't help the poor by being one of them.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Companies thrive on the basis of the stories they tell.

Tell people what specific action to take.

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

The sadest part of love life is when you cannot live with and without the one you love

(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

To be spiritual is to be amazed.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God

I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!

Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.

Labor is the true standard of value.

To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm