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“I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. but we cannot always do what is absolutely best. those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice. truth advances, & error recedes step by step only; and to do to our fellow-men the most good in our power, we must lead where we can, follow where we cannot, and still go with them, watching always the favorable moment for helping them to another step.
― Thomas Jefferson

“Our magazine covers frequently feature the immoral, the perverted, the psychologically sick. Sin is “in.” People don’t like to be told they are sinners.”
― Billy Graham

“You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.” 
― Rick Warren

“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
― Mother Teresa

“The desire for sexual expression is inborn and natural. The desire cannot, and should not be submerged or eliminated. But it should be given an outlet through forms of expression which enrich the body, mind, and spirit of man.”
― Napoleon Hill

“It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.”
― Nelson Mandela

“America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest variety and greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can’t even entertain themselves.”
― Billy Graham

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”
― Mother Teresa

“I may not be where I need to be but at least I am not where I used to be.” 
― Joyce Meyer

“In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself...I see with a myriad of eyes,but it is still I who see.”
― C.S. Lewis

“When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.”
― Albert Einstein

“She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.”
― Frank Herbert

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family” 
― Thomas Jefferson

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