M.K. Alexander Quotes
Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.
The intention of each lesson is getting you to recognize what you're doing, kinesthetically. Once you're conscious of it, you then can choose whether to continue doing the same thing or not.
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.
If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it.
A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.
When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.
There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.
A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.
It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.
God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.