John Rae famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

  • The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

  • It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

  • The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

  • God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.

  • Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

  • I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

  • The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

  • Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being.

  • If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.

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