Mildred Cable famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

God provides the men and women needed for each generation.
-- Mildred Cable

#Men #Generations #Christianity
there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep one of these in his ranks, because its instinct is always toward revolt against authority. One such camel will sometimes break up the discipline of a whole train, for, owing to the mass mentality of the herd, even peaceful beasts are suddenly infected with the spirit of revolt and in a few minutes the whole caravan is in utter disorder.
-- Mildred Cable

#Discipline #Leader #Peaceful
[On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies.
-- Mildred Cable

#Heart #Camels #Weak
[On the camel:] When it kneels to be laden it always grumbles, growls and shows resentment, but of this the driver takes no notice. He goes on loading up until the moment when the beast suddenly becomes silent; then he knows that the burden is heavy enough, and nothing more is added.
-- Mildred Cable

#Goes On #Camels #Resentment
Without water the desert is nothing but a grave ...
-- Mildred Cable

#Water #Desert #Graves
in the desert the detachment of life from all normal intercourse imparts a sense of gravity to every rencontre, and each touch with human beings is fraught with a significance lacking in the too hurried intercourse of ordinary everyday life. On the desert track, there is no such thing as a casual meeting ...
-- Mildred Cable

#Track #Everyday #Ordinary
History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.
-- Mildred Cable

#War #People #Records
If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon them until they become nervous and awkward too.
-- Mildred Cable

#Men #People #Awkward

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.
We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.
A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.

Mildred Cable famous quotes

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