Christian Minister

🇺🇸Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature

Western philosophy

1803–1882

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

🇺🇸Pat Robertson

Politics

1930–2023

"If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer."

Joseph Priestley

Science

1733–1804

"From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices."

🇺🇸Fred Rogers

Politics

1928–2003

"The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is."

🇮🇳Yogi Adityanath

Politics

b. 1972

"Distorting history is no less a crime than sedition."

🇨🇦Tommy Douglas

Politics

1904–1986

"'My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.' To his daughter Shirley Douglas, 1951"

John Ross Macduff

Religion

1818–1895

"Faith does not first ask what the bread is made of, but eats it. It does not analyze the components of the living stream, but with joy draws water from the " wells of salvation."

🇺🇸Horace Bushnell

Literature

1802–1876

"God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance."

"Blessedness, he affirmed, comes not from outward conditions but from inward states. It consists not in positions, but in dispositions."

🇬🇧Gilbert Burnet

Religion

1643–1715

"he chief Design of our whole Law, and of all the several Rules of our Constitution, is to secure and maintain our Liberty."

🇺🇸John M. Mason

Religion

1770–1829

"Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with the judgment of charity."

🇺🇸Russell Conwell

Politics

1843–1925

"There is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings, or by the shortcomings of someone else. It is all wrong to be poor, anyhow."

🇨🇦Stanley Knowles

Music

1908–1997

"What shall it profit us, unless life in the midst of it all has meaning? When a society spends more on advertising than it does on education, where is it headed?"

"As the eagle cannot soar upon a single wing, so the ministry is unprofitable and joyless which stints devotion."

🇬🇧William Laud

Religion

1573–1645

"I had a serious offer made me again to be a Cardinal. ... But my answer again was, that something dwelt within me which would not suffer that, till Rome were other than it is."

🇫🇷Roger Etchegaray

Politics

1922–2019

"Peace! Following my long-term service, it became clear to me that peace is to be built in peaceful times, rather than in the times of war."

Henry Hart Milman

Literature

1791–1868

"Too fair to worship, too divine to love."

🇺🇸Billy Graham

Politics

1918–2018

"I have come out in favor of birth control but sterilization is a crippling of a vital body function."

🇺🇸Samuel McChord Crothers

Politics

1857–1927

"Ingels: There is no absurdity in its mental processes; all that is concealed in its assumptions."

🇺🇸Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Science

1825–1921

"There is no more antagonism between growth and reproduction than between growth and thought, growth and muscular activity, growth and breathing."

🇺🇸Billy Graham (wrestler)

Politics

1918–2018

"I am the women's pet, the men's regret. What you see is what you get. And what you don't see is better yet."

Cotton Mather

Literature

1663–1728

"Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother."

🇺🇸George Edward Ellis

Literature

1814–1894

"The Bible, the Holy Scriptures, will never henceforward to any generation, in any part of the globe, be, or stand for, to individuals or groups of men and women, what is was to the early English Puritans."

🇬🇧John Home

Literature

1722–1808

"A rude and boisterous captain of the sea."

🇬🇧Joseph Brotherton

Politics

1783–1857

"The Eating and Drinking Reformation is at the foundation of all the good that would be produced in society."

🇺🇸Edward Dorr Griffin

Education

1770–1837

"Edward Dorr Griffin : Williams President 1821-1836 via Williams College"

🇺🇸John Henry Hobart

Religion

1775–1830

"My banner is Evangelical Truth, Apostolic Order."

🇬🇧George Whitefield

Religion

1714–1770

"Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?"

🇳🇬T. B. Joshua

1963–2021

"“Adopting a lifestyle that is on purpose provides an opportunity to enrich others by leaving your imprint in a positive way."

"As the Knowledge of Nature tends to enlarge the human Mind, and give us more noble, more grand, and exalted Ideas of the AUTHOR of Nature, and if well pursu'd, seldom fails producing something useful to Man."

🇺🇸Samuel Rutherford

Politics

1870–1932

"I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet."

Increase Mather

Politics

1639–1723

"Drink is in itself a good creature of God, but the abuse of drink is from Satan."

🇬🇧Matthew Henry

Politics

1662–1714

"Those who will not be counselled, cannot be helped. More souls are ruined by pride than by any other sin whatever."

Henry Alford

Literature

1810–1871

"Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression."

🇺🇸Ichabod Spencer

Politics

1798–1854

"When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin."