Rolle Quotes & Sayings

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort. — Richard Rolle

I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did. — Esther Rolle

I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy. — Esther Rolle

God sees in you what you can't see in yourself. Remember to keep the faith and never give up! — Prophetess Dina Rolle

Ladies, it is NOT in your DNA to be a CHASER!!!
You are chosen, hand-picked and peculiar pearls.
Know who you are in the True and Living God.
You are a Royal Diadem. — Prophetess Dina Rolle

'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!' — Esther Rolle

If thou wilt be well with GOD, and have grace to rule thy life, and come to the joy of love: this name JESUS, fasten it so fast in thy heart that it come never out of thy thought. And when thou speakest to Him, and through custom sayst, JESUS, it shall be in thine ear, joy; in thy mouth, honey; and in thine heart, melody: for men shall think joy to hear that name be named, sweetness to speak it, mirth and song to think it. If thou thinkest (on) JESUS continually, and holdest it firmly, it purges thy sin, and kindles thine heart; it clarifies thy soul, it removes anger and does away slowness. It wounds in love and fulfils charity. It chases the devil, and puts out dread. It opens heaven, and makes a contemplative man. Have JESUS in mind, for that puts all vices and phantoms out from the lover. — Richard Rolle

Every season has an end~for a harvest to begin. Embrace the process! — Prophetess Dina Rolle

God is still in the miracle working business. He's still the same God yesterday, today and forevermore. — Prophetess Dina Rolle

The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular. — Richard Rolle

I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers. — Esther Rolle

We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature. — Esther Rolle

Hope doesn't disappoint. God is FAITHFUL to His promises. Being delayed is a part of God's plan for our lives. So don't lose hope everything will come forth at the appointed time. — Prophetess Dina Rolle

One of the greatest lesson is humility. Humility is like oxygen to the soul. You won't get too far without it! — Dina Rolle

Never allow anyone to destroy God's divine purpose within you through their opinion. — Prophetess Dina Rolle

I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value. — Esther Rolle

Trust God's process and timing~ He's got you covered! — Prophetess Dina Rolle

The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. — Richard Rolle

I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television. — Esther Rolle

Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread thronged, nor by doom tempted. — Richard Rolle

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life. — Richard Rolle

There's No Surrender~without Full Surrender! — Prophetess Dina Rolle

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice. — Esther Rolle

Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are. — Esther Rolle

Immortality is often ridiculous or cruel: few of us would have chosen to be Og or Ananias or Gallio. Even in mathematics, history sometimes plays strange tricks; Rolle figures in the textbooks of elementary calculus as if he had been a mathematician like Newton; Farey is immortal because he failed to understand a theorem which Haros had proved perfectly fourteen years before; the names of five worthy Norwegians still stand in Abel's Life, just for one act of conscientious imbecility, dutifully performed at the expense of their country's greatest man. But on the whole the history of science is fair, and this is particularly true in mathematics. No other subject has such clear-cut or unanimously accepted standards, and the men who are remembered are almost always the men who merit it. Mathematical fame, if you have the cash to pay for it, is one of the soundest and steadiest of investments. — G.H. Hardy

Perseverance is one of the keys to overcome the adverse circumstances of life. — Prophetess Dina Rolle

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise. — Richard Rolle

My mother grew up with each of her children - whatever your age, that's the age she'd be when she listened to your stories. She never belittled our problems. It made for something permanent and reliable. — Esther Rolle

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own. — Esther Rolle

Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself. — Richard Rolle

O good Jesu Thou has bound my heart in the thought of Thy Name, and now I can not but sing it; therefore have mercy upon me, making perfect that Thou hast ordained. — Richard Rolle

Adversity is not a bad thing~It's a God thing! — Prophetess Dina Rolle