Mott K Quotes

#1. If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of consistent members of the Church are with one accord day by day making intercession for the extension of Christ's Kingdom.

John Mott

#2. If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

Lucretia Mott

#3. Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

Lucretia Mott

#4. Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Lucretia Mott

#5. Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.

Nevill Francis Mott

#6. Of front-line importance among the most contagious and enduring traits of the leaders of nations and of all callings is that of spotless character.

John Mott

#7. I like cream cheese in just about anything.

Diane Mott Davidson

#8. Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.

John Mott

#9. I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.

Diane Mott Davidson

#10. It is a startling and solemnizing fact that even as late as the twentieth century, the Great Command of Jesus Christ to carry the Gospel to all mankind is still so largely unfulfilled.

John Mott

#11. Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.

John Mott

#12. The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

Lucretia Mott

#13. Like many people, she had spent most of her adult life trying to recreate her childhood, trying to grow back into it, as if time were not all-powerful.

Jason Mott

#14. Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

Lucretia Mott

#15. I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

Lucretia Mott

#16. Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains.

Lucretia Mott

#17. Don't make this a fight."
"I won't, but you make everything a fight.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#18. Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

Lucretia Mott

#19. I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

Diane Mott Davidson

#20. In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

Lucretia Mott

#21. People do that sometimes when...well, when the world is complex and the truth is not certain. People create the truth, and they hope that they can create the world of that truth.

Jason Mott

#22. Some folks locked the doors of their hearts when they lost someone. Others kept the doors and the windows open, letting memory and love pass through freely. And maybe that was the way it was supposed to be, Harold thought.

Jason Mott

#23. Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

Lucretia Mott

#24. Catering is extremely demanding financially and physically. It's a business.

Diane Mott Davidson

#25. As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

John Raleigh Mott

#26. Devils?" he said, his mind finding its train of thought as his hand found his cigarette lighter. "Devils are superstitions. Products of small minds and even smaller imaginations. There's one word that should be banned from the dictionary - devils. Ha! Now there's a flippant word.

Jason Mott

#27. I've got to go."
"Go where?"
"To go. I'd have just taken care of it myself, but it looks like you want to come along."
Mott cursed. "Wait for morning."
"Wish I could. I've been cursed with my mother's pea-size bladder.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#28. Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

John Mott

#29. You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.

John Mott

#30. If there's one thing America will always lead the world in," Harold said, "it's assholes with guns.

Jason Mott