Clergyman Quotes

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

What a privilege it is to be an American!

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.

Do not weep for me.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president.

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.