My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.
It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
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.
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.