It [spiritual authority and leadership] is not won by promotion, but my many prayers and tears. It is attained by confession of sin, and much heart-searching and humbling before God; by self-surrender, a courageous sacrifice of every idol, a bold unc...
All types of societies are limited by economic factors. Nineteenth century civilization alone was economic in a different and distinctive sense, for it chose to base itself in a motive rarely acknowledged as valid in history of human societies, and c...
The notion that we've made vast moral progress and are now a less violent species is belied by our awesome powers of destruction, our military might, police forces as well-armed as soldiers. Without the threat of such violent force behind it, all law...
You gain power by pretending to be weak.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
What you gain here, you lose on the other side.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
Who knows not sacrifice may never gain freedom.
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.
Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working.
To gain height, lose all your tall friends.
Respect is a mutual interest, your gains depend on your losses.
The true gift of our mistakes is the knowledge we gain from them
Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.
It is painful those feelings of pain, but accept it with love to see the gain.
When you give the love, you gain the heart.
When we do things with love, we gain the knowledge and wisdom and do it better.
To understand, you have to love, but to gain wisdom you have to understand with love.
Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.
I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.
