I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.
God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems especially efficient at using what we endure to mold our character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.
Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.
If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free.
You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.
Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought. ”(Christian D. Larson)
You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun. "
The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts