Lemuel K. Washburn Quotes

#1. If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

Lemuel K. Washburn

#3. I don't know who that guy was in the famous statue called The Thinker, but he was so deep in thought, he forgot to put on a pair of pants.

R.J. Silver

#4. If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so?

Lemuel K. Washburn

#5. He asked me again if I would marry him, because, he said, love is a perilous dance, but worth dancing all the same. This time, I said yes.

Kate Avery Ellison

#6. If I had written the greatest book, composed the greatest symphony, painted the most beautiful painting or carved the most exquisite figure I could not have felt the more exalted creator than I did when they placed my child in my arms.

Dorothy Day

#7. If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

Lemuel K. Washburn

#8. You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?

Virginia Woolf

#9. If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh?

Lemuel K. Washburn

#10. You need to return to the truth of God's Word that will last forever, not meditate on circumstance that will fade and change.
It is this truth that enables us to go into the future undaunted.

Christine Caine

#11. A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

Quentin Blake

#12. The foundation of all our confidence is found in the Blessed Virgin Mary. God has committed to her the treasury of all good things, in order that everyone may know that through her are obtained every hope, every grace, and all salvation. For this is His will: That we obtain everything through Mary.

Pope Pius IX

#13. We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.

Patti Smith

#14. For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them.

A.E. Samaan

#15. No-one can put in his best performance unless he feels secure," Deming wrote,

Julian Birkinshaw

#16. Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

Lemuel K. Washburn

#17. The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

Lemuel K. Washburn