"We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith."

-- Horace Bushnell

#Energy Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Lost Quotes

“Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.”
“Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.”

Source : "Donny Osmond reveals secrets to his happy 32-year marriage". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegassun.com. October 11, 2010.
“There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings.”
“In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has all of these things. All that is missing is the believer.”
“I haven't taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.”
“The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country”
“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”

Source : Thomas a Kempis, Aeterna Press (1941*). “The Following of Christ”, p.78, Aeterna Press
“Abraham Lincoln once walked down the street with his two sons, both of whom were crying. "What's the matter with you boys?" asked a passerby. "Exactly what is wrong with the whole world," said Lincoln. "I have three walnuts, and each boy wants two."”

You may also like:

Charles Grandison Finney
Minister
Charles Hodge
Author
Frederick Law Olmsted
Landscape architect
Lyman Beecher
Mark Noll
Historian
Theodore Parker
Walter Rauschenbusch
Washington Gladden
Writer
William Ellery Channing
Preacher