Exhortation Quotes

“Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God

“Play to your strengths.”
“I haven’t got any,” said Harry, before he could stop himself.
“Excuse me,” growled Moody, “you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Don’t accuse others of eating when juice smears your face-fur.”
― David Bowles, The Deepest Green

“Quick as birds to catch the bugs.”
― David Bowles, The Deepest Green

“Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.”
― H.W. Brands, The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

“Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist at the same things he was shaking his fist at.”
― Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

“We must teach our people to reject gain from extortion, bribery, unrighteous grafts as something utterly abhorring.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“I'd always follow Nixon's orders, but you can't order somebody to be happy.”
― Charles W. Colson, Born Again

“A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“The significant thing about Edwards is the way he enters into the tradition, infuses it with his personality and makes it live. The vitality of his thought gives to its product the value of unique creation. Two qualities in him especially contribute to this result, large constructive imagination and a marvelously acute power of abstract reasoning. With the vision of the seer he looks steadily upon his world, which is the world of all time and space and existence, and sees it as a whole; God and souls are in it the great realities, and the transactions between them the great business in which all its movement is concerned.”
― H. Norman Gardiner, Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards

“He is blunt in his moral assessment, brandishing a word that he says has gone missing in the broader poverty debate: “exploitation.”
― Jennifer Schuessler

“At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.”
― Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion