Quotes
I love sports, like most of my friends, and I try and keep my body in good shape. Not only for the series and for my lady, but for the fans.
Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
Frederick B. Wilcox
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
I may well say, that they have been written in the feeling of that love which knoweth no bounds; and which hath for its object the true happiness and salvation of all; desiring that, as I have written them in simplicity and tenderness of spirit, thou wouldst permit them to receive a portion of thy consideration.
Hence this arch-pretender, finding himself forever defeated by the power and interminable decree of God, was excited to the highest pitch of hatred and malice, and seeing he was now forever expelled from the glories above, would seek to obtain for himself some other place and kingdom where to rule.
He was dead also as it regards a sense of goodness; for his feelings were now so perverted, that they led him to consider God, who was truly his all beneficent Father, to be his enemy; he himself having now become the subject of another kingdom.
But O! that the spirit and power of the gospel may never give place to profession and form, however garnished and glowing that form or profession may appear.
As a small leak, if suffered to continue, will sink a ship, however good and richly laden, and as a small breach in the enclosure of the vineyard, however fruitful, will let in the devourer, so I believe if this testimony, (however small any may deem it,) should be abandoned, it would greatly endanger our safety.
Ray L. Wilbur
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude Boys and Nasty Girls of God realization, the men and women who are in your face, disturbing you terrifying you, until you radically awaken to who and what you really are.