Quotes of: Wright Keyword

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Hosea Ballou

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Hosea Ballou

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Haim Ginott

Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying now. Gamers don't sit around.

Jane McGonigal

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

Joseph McCabe

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

Josh McDowell

Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.

Josh McDowell

If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

Jean Nouvel

In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.

Joel Osteen

Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Joel Osteen

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

Joel Osteen

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

Joel Osteen

A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

Joel Osteen

Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

John Ortberg

Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.

John Ortberg

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

John Ortberg

Don't waste your time trying to win people over that can never be won over.

Joel Osteen

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

John Podhoretz

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

John Podhoretz