Wickstrom Lincoln Quotes & Sayings

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. — Alexander Pope

I'm a realist." "You're a misanthrope. — Jason Mott

The Gospel is not about going from bad to good, it's about going from dead to alive! — Louie Giglio

director under George H. W. Bush — Ted Bell

He [Pigpen] appears too damn happy and that causes a wave of uneasiness. — Katie McGarry

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred. — Pliny The Elder

I have no particular career agenda. — Benjamin Bratt

A thoroughgoing paternalist who holds it cannot be dissuaded by being shown that he is making a mistake in logic. He is our opponent on grounds of principle, not simply a well-meaning but misguided friend. Basically, he believes in dictatorship, benevolent and maybe majoritarian, but dictatorship none the less. Those of us who believe in freedom must believe also in the freedom of individuals to make their own mistakes. If a man knowingly prefers to live for today, to use his resources for current enjoyment, deliberately choosing a penurious old age, by what right do we prevent him from doing so? We may argue with him, seek to persuade him that he is wrong, but are we entitled to use coercion to prevent him from doing what he chooses to do? Is there not always the possibility that he is right and that we are wrong? Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist. — Milton Friedman

We don't know yet but so far the three candidates that have dealt with [Donald] Trump most adeptly are [Ted] Cruz, [Chris] Christie, and [Marco] Rubio. But they've all avoided him in one form or another. — Dalia Mogahed

My father nodded. His nod was for me. Different. But not different at all. My father understood. Maybe he had known. Maybe he hadn't. It didn't matter anymore. He understood. I knew he understood, just from his nod, just from his eyes on mine, making his eyes kind for me, and the wave of pain went away for a moment. — Adam Berlin Belmondo Style

I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands. — Anton Chekhov

Prayer helps correct myopia, calling to mind a perspective I daily forget. I keep reversing roles, thinking of ways in which God should serve me, rather than vice versa. As God fiercely reminded Job, the Lord of the universe has many things to manage, and in the midst of my self-pity I would do well to contemplate for a moment God's own point of view. — Philip Yancey