Charles Clayton Morrison famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

  • I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

  • I got drunk in Canada. I was there for 2 days but I was drunk there for 4 days. I don't know how it worked. I guess it was with the time difference or something.

  • Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.

  • As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

  • All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.

  • I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

  • A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

  • I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

  • It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.