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" 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. "

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" 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! "

Edward Everett Hale

Death

Walk

Life

" Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. "

" I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Do well what you do. And do it conscious that you ought to be leaders among men. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country. "

" Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. "

" Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of a tree-toad or the sweep of an eagle - my life loves to see how others live, exults in their joy, and so far is partner in their great concern. "

" 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. "

" War - hard apprenticeship of freedom. "

" Do not blow your own trumpets nor, which is the same thing, ask other people to blow them. No trumpeter ever rose to be a general. "

" It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in truth, Life is gaining all the while. Brute force, such power as there seems to be in things, cannot stand against ideas which are eternal. "

" 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. "

Edward Everett Hale

God

Home

" If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. "

" Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. "

" In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. "

" To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. "

" Gentlemen and ladies are sure of their ground. They pretend to nothing that they are not. "

" The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. "