I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Topic: Action, Faith
- Location: California, Napa Valley
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.
Action expresses priorities.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.
Faith in yourself matters.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.