Top 38 Stannard Quotes
#1. Everything we encounter in life is an opportunity to choose God and in turn become more like Him in the process. Quick contentment fixes are corner cutters; when we cut the corner and cut the process, we miss what God wants to do.
Joshua Stannard
#2. Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.
Russell Stannard
#3. We are doing a huge disservice to a dying world if a manifestation of the joy in us is not coming out of us.
Joshua Stannard
#4. The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
Ray Stannard Baker
#5. A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
Ray Stannard Baker
#7. Most of us have collections of sayings we live by ... Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.
Ray Stannard Baker
#8. When you experience His love, the truth of what He thinks about you and His goodness, then how can you doubt that you were made with a purpose?
Joshua Stannard
#9. Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
Ray Stannard Baker
#11. Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.
Una Stannard
#12. Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave.
Eaton Stannard Barrett
#14. A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.
Ray Stannard Baker
#15. And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
Ray Stannard Baker
#16. Everything fades away when we lock eyes with the one who calls us His own.
Joshua Stannard
#17. We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.
Ray Stannard Baker
#18. One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.
Ray Stannard Baker
#19. There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.
Ray Stannard Baker
#20. Surrender and sacrifice sets you up for success with God.
Joshua Stannard
#21. The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.
Ray Stannard Baker
#22. In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.
Ray Stannard Baker
#23. In talking of evolution, it is common to have in mind a tree.
Russell Stannard
#24. But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
Ray Stannard Baker
#25. When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.
Ray Stannard Baker
#26. Isolation is not a healthy 'coping' method, it's like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!
Joshua Stannard
#27. The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.
Ray Stannard Baker
#28. When we know that His plans are to prosper us and give us hope and future, we bow down at once to the blessing of pruning, knowing that the change that will take place in us, will take us places.
Joshua Stannard
#29. Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender.
Joshua Stannard
#30. At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.
Ray Stannard Baker
#32. You are one belief away from breakthrough. It's a choice, so choose the next right thing, you can do it!
Joshua Stannard
#33. It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.
Ray Stannard Baker
#34. Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.
Ray Stannard Baker
#35. Joy is a choice, and it's something we fight for and choose.
Joshua Stannard
#36. Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.
Ray Stannard Baker
#37. You see, what we do with what He gives us determines how much more we will get.
Joshua Stannard
#38. Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
Ray Stannard Baker
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