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"My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind. That's the only way that we would be able to make of our world a better world, and to make of this world what God wants it to be and the real purpose and meaning of it."
"An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality."
"Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love, love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian face, faith. There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love."
"World hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so! God has made the universe to be based on a moral law. So long as man disobeys it he is revolting against God. That’s what we need in the world today - people who will stand for right and goodness."
"You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November."
"You can never be great at anything unless you love it."
"For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books."
"No wind favors he who has no destined port."
"Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence."
"The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace"
"Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists."
"You exist without the feeling of existence."
"When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist."
"You must purge yourself before finding faults in others."
"The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator."
"Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you."
"The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best."
"Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company."
"Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events."
"Quickly say, "That's good!" to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it."
