Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

The Church in England is the Church of England.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.