Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong.
Failed the bright promise of your early day?
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?-- They sought a faith's pure shrine!
And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God.
That in such righteousness To them by faith imputed they may find Justification towards God, and peace Of conscience.
Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Believing in our goals to the point of acting upon them as though they are real already is the ultimate test of our faith and faithfulnessâand the ultimate trigger for their realization when the time is right.
O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.âOrville Wright.
Cheer up, children, I am all right.
Good people are always so sure they're right.
So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
I have tried so hard to do right.
When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright. But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind, And horrow heavy sat on every mind.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. [Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrosum.]
He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could not think of it. He began to get frightened, and that is bad for thinking.