Clergyman

"The spiritual life must find its origin in silence."

🇺🇸Thomas De Witt Talmage

Religion

1832–1902

"Talmage on Miracles recited by Len Spencer, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library."

🇺🇸James Waddel Alexander

Politics

1804–1859

"There are regions beyond the most nebulous outskirts of matter; but no regions beyond the Divine goodness. We may conceive of tracts where there are no worlds, but not of any where there us no God of mercy."

🇨🇦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?"

🇬🇧Robinson Duckworth

Religion

1834–1911

"I rowed stroke and he rowed bow in the famous Long Vacation voyage to Godstow, when the three Miss Liddells were our passengers, and the story was actually composed and spoken over my shoulder."

🇺🇸Samuel Longfellow

Literature

1819–1892

"Longfellow's Memoir and Letters at Google Books"

🇺🇸Richard Salter Storrs

Literature

1821–1900

"To speak for Him will be our impulse. No matter how timid, nervous, self-diffident, we are in ourselves, as we touch His pierced and royal hand, we shall be instantly masterful and strong."

🇺🇸Edmund Sears

Literature

1810–1876

"Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature."