Quotes by American Authors - Page 103

I would rather be right than President.
Henry Clay
Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of colour the most corrosive is the wound within the internalized racism that leads some victims at unspeakable cost to their own sense of self to embrace the values of their oppressors.
H. Jack Geiger
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.
Pearl Buck
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H.L. Mencken
Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
A. Eustace Haydon
We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.
Mark Twain
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Edward R. Murrow
How it infuriates a bigot when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.
Charles Curtis
Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?
Groucho Marx
It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
James Baldwin
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after dark.
Dick Gregory
The minister's brain is often die "poor-box" of the church.
Henry B. Whipple
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit and not give the bread of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended upon man.
Francis Cardinal Spellman
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.
Mary Baker Eddy
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.
Phillips Brooks
Courage is not afraid to weep and she is not afraid to pray even when she is not sure who she is praying to.
J. Ruth Gendler
I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.
Malcolm Boyd
If we do not love one another we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
Dwight L. Moody
We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.
Austin Phelps
Prayer reaches out in love to a dying world and says "I care."
Dick Eastman
If we could all hear one another's prayers God might be relieved of some of his burden.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Revival fires flame where hearts are praying.
Dick Eastman
The prayers of the Christian are secret but their effect cannot be hidden.
Howard Chandler Robbins
Some pray to marry the man they love my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
Rose Pastor Stokes
Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.
Phillips Brooks
Prayer is our most formidable weapon the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
E.M.Bounds
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in His presence.
E.W. Kenyon
Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."
A.B. Simpson
I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
James Russell Lowell
Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust.
Dean Register
It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore but a supreme delight.
Gordon Lindsay
Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
George Mueller
Prayer is the voice of faith.
William Van Home
Prayer like faith obtains promises enlarges their operation and adds to the measure of their results.
E.M.Bounds
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things the simplest and the sublim-est the weakest and the most powerful its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.
E.M.Bounds
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children just as far as God's ability goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.
E.M.Bounds
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
Bill W.
It is hard to wait and press and pray and hear no voice but stay till God answers.
E.M.Bounds
The essence of prayer even of a mystical experience is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.
Matthew Fox
The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
William James
Prayer opens our eyes that we may see ourselves and others as God sees us.
Clara Palmer
Prayer has marked the trees across the wilderness of a skeptical world to direct the traveler in distress and all paths lead to a single light.
Douglas Meador
Prayer puts God's work in His hands-and keeps it there.
E.M.Bounds
Prayer is a kind of calling home every day. And there can come to you a serenity a feeling of at-homeness in God's universe a peace that the world can neither give nor disturb a fresh courage a new insight a holy boldness that you'll never never get any other way.
Earl G. Hunt
Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns.
William S. Plumer
Just when I need Him He is my all Answering when upon Him I call Tenderly watching lest I should fall.
William Poole
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another and by and by they meet.
Adoniram Judson
Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.
T. L. Cuyler
Sometimes ... God answers our prayers in the way our parents do who reply to the pleas of their children with "Not just now" or "I'll have to think about that for a little while."
Roy M. Pearson
The firmament of the Bible is ablaze with answers to prayer.
T. L. Cuyler
Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Thomas Jefferson
God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them correct them bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.
Stephen Crotts