M.K. Alexander Quotes
The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.
While as he yet doth breath extend, no man is blest; behold the end.
Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.
Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.
Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.
It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.
My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.
Come seeking to know Him, and I promise you will find Him and see Him in His true character as the risen, redeeming Savior of the world.
Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.
Be thou a bright flame before me, Be thou a guiding star above me, Be thou a smooth path below me, Today, tonight and forever.
The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as we seek to find a proper balance between impulse and discretion.
It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.
No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.
I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!
I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.
The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid.
I've never really had a chance to play a bad guy, and that's something I've always really, really wanted to do. I wanted to experience that really dark side of a person.
Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing to us.
Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.
That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.
Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.
God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.
Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.
Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the everlasting life which Christ gives and is.
In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants.
The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.
The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.
The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.
That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
