If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?
It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in. "
If you were good enough, there would be no need of confessing Christ at all. It is just because you are not good enough, that Christ says to you, "Follow me. " He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. It is not the perfect people whom He wants in His church, but those who have a deep sense of their own imperfection, and who believe that His strength is made perfect in weakness.
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
You are not so good a Christian when you are neglecting a plain duty as when you are performing it. And joining the church is a plain duty for all who mean to be Christians.
The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.
When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.
It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into your life, and I do vaguely remember roughly five years old reading versions of Alice in Wonderland, but the thing is the characters. You always know the characters. Everyone knows the characters and they're very well-defined characters, which I always thought was fascinating. Most people who haven't read the book definitely know the characters and reference them.
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.
History: A distillation of rumor.