Quotes on Lecturer

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Beyond drama and chaos, beyond anxiety and fear, lies a zone of endless peace and love. Let's all take a very deep breath, slow down for just a moment and remember this. That alone will open the door.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.

I never had a black teacher or lecturer, I never once met a black British person who held any sort of professional or managerial role.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.