The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with...
If you knew how quickly people would forget about you after your death, you will not seek in your life to please anyone but God. (circa 387)
If you're in trouble or hurt or need, go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help--the only ones. from The Grapes of Wrath
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. --------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: A body of people holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
People who have come to know the joy of God do not deny the darkness, but they choose not to live in it.
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.---------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive paraphrase: If you have people who will...
The happiest people I know are evaluating and improving themselves. The unhappy people are usually evaluating and judging others.
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.