Benjamin Hoadly famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.

  • The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

  • The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

  • Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.

  • We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

  • We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

  • Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

  • Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

  • To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

  • I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago