If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

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.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.