American - Clergyman | April 3, 1822 - June 10, 1909
Nineteen centuries would have been worth very little if we had not made some advance in welcoming the stranger, in feeding the hungry, in clothing the naked, and in caring for the prisoner.
Edward Everett Hale
CaringWorthHungryClothingNaked
The Resurrection miracle is nothing to you and me if it is only an event of eighteen centuries bygone. Unless we can live the immortal life - unless we can receive God to his own home in these hearts of ours - the texts are nothing to us unless these daily lives illustrate them.
LifeHomeLiveDailyGodMe
'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.
YouLookCountryPrayPray ForDr
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
GreatFireAngerWiseOutGet
How indifferent are men to this carpenter or that fisherman, who has no word to speak of adventure or of wealth, but has only the word of God to proclaim, and has no credentials but that he comes in the name of the Lord.
GodMenAdventureSpeakNameWealth
It sometimes seems easier to trace the great general laws of God's government in the passage of events far from us than in those close around us. We see the shape of those far-off constellations, but we cannot group or set in order that to which our own sun belongs.
GodGreatGovernmentSunSometimes
Thrones, dominations, principalities know now with a terrible certainty that mere force of arms has no power which compares with that living word of the crucified Nazarene, that bears with it Eternal Life, and directs the duty of a world of men whom he can lead, but who bend no knee to power.
LifePowerMenWorldKnowLiving
Do well what you do. And do it conscious that you ought to be leaders among men.
MenYouWellLeadersConscious
You may take this as a general and central principle in criticism: that all science, literature or song, which recognizes conscious life as the ruling principle of the universe, is Christian.
LifeScienceSongCriticismUniverse
You need the living, loving heart of living, loving men and women to quicken other hearts, which can live too and love too, and, in their turn, will quicken others which are dying now.
LoveWomenLiveHeartMenYou
The great event of history is in the great miracle of Life: when, to a paralyzed world, Jesus Christ said, 'Take up your bed and walk,' and at his voice, that world obeyed. The victory of life over death!
LifeHistoryGreatWalkDeathWorld
Let a man live with God, not afraid to talk with him. Let him study God's plans and methods, as one of Michelangelo's pupils might study his.
LiveGodManPlansTalkStudy
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Edward Everett Hale quotes