But even sinners have something to say. While I do not agree with every word, action, or thought of the following individuals, I do think we can learn from their insight and wisdom. I also believe the majority of the following quotes align with the teachings of the Bible, and as such represent the instances when the person quoted got it right! Not everyone quoted here chose to place their faith in Jesus, or would agree with my views and beliefs, but they all were afforded the opportunity to live life and pursue their dreams. While some of these great souls were deprived of a full and long life, none of them were given so little time as to keep them from making an impact on their fellow man.

The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge; the ears of the wise seek it out. –Proverbs 18:15 NIV

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“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”

“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

“One and God make a majority.”

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.”

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

“The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”

“All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”

“God must love the common man, he made so many of them.”

“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”

“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”

“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.”

“The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.”

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.”

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

“No one has the right to choose to do what is wrong.”

John F Kennedy

1917-1963

American President

“A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.”

“I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it.”

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”

“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.”

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”

“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”

“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.”

Mother Teresa

1910-1997

Calcutta Nun

“Any country that accepts abortion, is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what it wants.”

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”

“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”

“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”

“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”

“We are all pencils in the hand of God.”

“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”

“Saying there are too many children is like saying there are too many flowers.”

Thomas Jefferson

1743-1826

American President

“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.”

“The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.”

“In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.”

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.”

 Eleanor Roosevelt

1884-1962

American First Lady

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”

“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”

“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”

“What you don’t do can be a destructive force.”

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”

“Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water!”

“Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.”

Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968
American Civil Rights Leader and Pastor

“Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’”

“One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.”

 Billy Graham

1918-2018

Christian Evangelist

“Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.”

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”

“Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.”

“It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.”

“Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.”

“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’”

“The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”

“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”

 Corrie Ten Boom 1892-1983

Holocaust Survivor and Rescuer of Jews

“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”

“Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to faultfinding.”

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

“The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.”

“The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.”

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”

“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”

“It was at a church service in Munich that I saw him, a former S.S. man who had stood guard at the shower room door in the processing center at Ravensbruck. He was the first of our actual jailers that I had seen since that time. And suddenly it was all there – the roomful of mocking men, the heaps of clothing, Betsie’s pain-blanched face. He came up to me as the church was emptying, beaming and bowing. “How grateful I am for your message,

 Fraulein.” He said. “To think that, as you say, He has washed my sins away!” His hand was thrust out to shake mine. And I, who had preached so often to the people in Bloemendaal the need to forgive, kept my hand at my side. Even as the angry, vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him. I tried to smile, I struggled to raise my hand. I could not. I felt nothing, not the slightest spark of warmth or charity. And so again I breathed a silent prayer. Jesus, I prayed, I cannot forgive him. Give me Your forgiveness. As I took his hand the most incredible thing happened. From my shoulder along my arm and through my hand a current seemed to pass from me to him, while into my heart sprang a love for this stranger that almost overwhelmed me. And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world’s healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.”

Thomas A. Edison

1847-1931

American Inventor

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

“I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.”

“I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.”

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”

“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”

Nikola Tesla

1856-1943

Serbian-American Physicist, Inventor, and Electrical Engineer

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

“The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.”

“A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.”

“My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.”

Helen Keller

1880-1968

American Author
and Activist

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”

“I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.”

“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”

“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”

“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”

“It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.”

“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”

“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”

“Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.”

“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.”

“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”

“We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.”

Theodore Roosevelt

1858-1919

American President

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

“...the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.”

“Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense.... We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less. The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.”

“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.”

“The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

“This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.”

“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”

“There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.”

“It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.”

“Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.”

“There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.”

Mahatma Gandhi

1869-1948

Indian Lawyer and Nationalist Leader

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”

“A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.”

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”

“All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.”

“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”

“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”

“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”

“Be the change that you want to see in the world.”

“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.”

“Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.”

“Each one prays to God according to his own light.”

“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.”

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?”

“God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”

“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.”

“Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.”

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the Creator.”

“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”

“Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”

Ann Frank

 1929-1945

German Diarist and Holocaust Victim

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”

“The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands”

“I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquility will return again.”

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”

Cesar Chavez

1927-1993

American Labor Activist

“When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.”

“There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.”

“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”

“You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.”

“Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.”

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.”

“When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again. He has confirmed his own humanity. Through non-violence, he has confirmed the humanity of others.”

“Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...”

“It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.”

“We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the non-violence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.”

“I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.”

Winston Churchill

1874-1965

British Prime Minister

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

“Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.”

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”

“Great and good are seldom the same man.”

“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

“I never worry about action, but only about inaction.”

“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.”

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.”

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

“Never, never, never give up.”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.”

“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.”

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”

“Act, and God will act”

“I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.”

Joan of Arc

1412-1431

National Heroine of France

William Wilberforce

1759-1833

Member of Parliament, Abolitionist, Author

“And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?”

“Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.”

“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”

“I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for having suffered this horrid trade to be carried on under their authority. We are all

guilty—we ought all to plead guilty, and not to exculpate ourselves by throwing the blame on others; and I therefore deprecate every kind of reflection against the various descriptions of people who are more immediately involved in this wretched business.”

“Never, never will we desist, until we have wiped away this scandal from the Christian name, released ourselves from the load of guilt, under which we at present labor, and extinguished every trace of this bloody traffic, of which our posterity, looking back to the history of these enlightened times, will scarce believe that it has been suffered to exist so long a disgrace and dishonor to this country.”

John Newton

1725-1807

Anglican Pastor, Song Writer, and Former Slave Ship Captain

“God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.”

“How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer’s ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.”

“My memory is nearly gone; but I remember two things; That I am a great sinner, and that Christ is a great Saviour.”

“We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to His glory and our own advantage”

“This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus”

“If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.”

“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”

“Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.”

“Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon the fullness of grace and love in Him, and upon His obedience unto death”

“Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide”

Benazir Bhutto

1953-2007

Pakistani Prime Minister

“Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.”

“You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.”

“The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.”

“Now, when people are dying, you don’t really look at who’s offering the help. You take it. The first issue should be to help the people.”

“He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation.”

“The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.”

“Nothing but Christianity will give you the victory.”

“Until a man believes in his heart

that Jesus Christ is his Lord and Master...his course through life will be neither safe nor pleasant.”

“My only regret is that I was so long blinded by my pleasures, my vices and pursuits, and the examples of others that I was kept from seeing, admiring,

and adoring the marvelous light of the gospel.”

Albert Einstein

1879-1955

German Theoretical Physicist

“Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.”

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

“Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”

“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”

“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”

“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”

“The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule”

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”

“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”

Jane Addams
1860-1935
American Author, Social Reformer and Founder
of the Hull House

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.”

“Civilization is a method of living and an attitude of equal respect for all people.”

“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”

Isaac Newton

1642-1727

English Mathematician and Physicist

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.”

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

“This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.”

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

George Mueller

1805-1898

Christian Evangelist and Minister to Orphans

“There was a day when I died;

died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will;

died to the world, its approval or censure;

died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends;

and since then I have studied only

to show myself approved unto God.”

“To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.”

“If the Lord fails me at this time, it will be the first time.”

“The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.”

“It is not enough for the believer to begin to pray, nor to pray correctly; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray. We must patiently, believingly continue in prayer until we obtain an answer.”

Sophie Scholl
1921-1943

German activist, executed for her efforts as part of the underground student  resistance against the Nazi party

“God, you are my refuge into eternity.”

“We will not be silent”

“It is certain that today every honest German is ashamed of his government. Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes ... reach the light of day?”

— From the first leaflet of the White Rose.

“Since the conquest of Poland three hundred thousand Jews have been murdered in this country in the most bestial way ... The German people

slumber on in their dull, stupid sleep and encourage these fascist criminals ... Each man wants to be exonerated of a guilt of this kind, each one continues on his way with the most placid, the calmest conscience. But he cannot be exonerated; he is guilty, guilty, guilty!”

— From the second leaflet of the White Rose.

Leonardo da Vinci

1452-1519

Italian Painter, Engineer, and Sculptor

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”

“Who sows virtue reaps honor.

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”

Clive Staples Lewis

1898-1963

Irish Author and Professor

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”

“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’”

“If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.”

“A great many of those who ‘debunk’ traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.”

“Whenever you find a man who says he doesn’t believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.”

“Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it.”

“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”

Harriet Tubman

1820-1913

American Slave Who Led Over 1000 Fellow Slaves
to Freedom

“I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.”

“I can’t die but once.”

“I never lost a passenger.”

“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”

“Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to You and You’ve got to see me through.”

Ronald Reagan

1911-2004

American President

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”

“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”

“I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.”

“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

“Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.”

“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”

Muhammad Ali

1942-2016

American Champion Boxer

“A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.”

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”

“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”

“To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.”

Kathy Ireland

1963-

American Model

“My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.”

“Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk”

“I have to say I’ve made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It’s never too late to learn.”

Maya Angelou

1928- 2014

American Poet and Author

“All great achievements require time.”

“I believe that every person is born with talent.”

“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”

“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”

“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”

“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.”

George Washington

1732-1799

American President

“I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.”

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.”

“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

“Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.”

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

“The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.”

“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.”

Charles Darwin

1809-1882

English Scientist and Author

“A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.”

“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.”

“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.”

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”

“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic”

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