"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less." --Eldridge Cleaver

"The majority of men do not usually act in accord with reason, but follow social pressures, inherited customs, and long established, often subconscious, patterns of action." --W.E.B. DuBois

"No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin." --Whitney Moore Young

"I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform." --Marva Nettles Collins

"Silence is the door of consent." --Berber proverb

"Only false prophets shun criticism, because they do not want their real motive revealed." --James Cone

"If someone is bringing out your most self-destructive tendencies, acknowledge that person is not a friend." --Ellis Cose

I just read a book called "I Knew William Booth". It is a collection of short articles and writings by people who knew William Booth, the cofounder of The Salvation Army, personally. Booth was an awesome man -- deeply committed to living right and to helping others get saved. His idea of "salvation" wasn't just a religions experience, but a radical turn around in a person's lifestyle from sin and self-destruction to living a high moral life of service to God and others.

He loved God above all. Several people said that in the middle of a conversation he would suddenly begin to talk to God. To Booth God was more real than his physical surroundings.

These stories about William Booth are very inspiring and challenging. They literally gave me goose bumps and made me cry out of a desire to see God work more powerfully in my own life. How we need some people like William Booth in our world today! Oh God, give us some real men and women of God in our day!

The Christians Secret of a Happy Life was written in the late 1800's by Hannah Whitall Smith. Read it, you'll like it. Do what it says and you will begin to experience wonderful happiness.

"Very few people realize the effect of thought upon the condition of the soul. If we think low and corrupt thoughts, we bring diseases upon our soul." --Hannah Whitall Smith

"Temptation cannot be sin; and the truth is, its is no mare a sin to hear whispers and suggestions of evil in our souls than it is for us to hear the wicked-talk of bad men as we pass along the street. The sin comes, in either case, only by our stopping and joining in with them." --Hannah Whitall Smith

It is easy to grin when your ship comes in
And you've got the stock market beat.
But the lad worthwhile
Is the lad who can smile
When his shorts are too tight in the seat!

"If Christ saves you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins." --Robert Murray McCheyne

"Repentance engages a man's total personality -- mind, heart, and will. Any 'gospel' which fails to capture a man's total allegiance, is therefore, by definition, not the New Testament gospel." --Richard Anderson

"Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve, and press on with vigor -- a Heavenly race demands your zeal." --Philip Doddridge

"Be killing sin or sin will be killing you." --John Owen

"We must be saints on earth if we ever mean to be saints in Heaven." --J.C. Ryle

"We never say you are saved unless there is a change wrought in you, and good works are produced in you. Faith saves, but it is the faith that causes men to do well; and if their be a faith (and there is such a faith) which leaves a man just what he was and permits him to indulge in sin, it is the faith of devils." --Charles Spurgeon