💬 Quotes

"Es ist eine seltsame Eigenschaft der Macht, dass sie diejenigen, welche sie ausüben, fast immer blind macht für die Kräfte, die sie zerstören können."

"Die Geschichte schreibt sich nicht von selbst, sie wird gemacht, aber oft von Händen, die nicht wissen, was sie tun."

"Wahre Freundschaft und offenes Wort sind in Zeiten des allgemeinen Zwiespalts das Einzige, woran man sich noch halten kann, ohne den Verstand zu verlieren."

"Der Eiferer glaubt immer, der Sache zu dienen, während er meist nur seiner eigenen Eitelkeit ein Opfer bringt."

"We are indebted to our friends for their sympathy, but the time has come for action, and we must work out our own salvation."

"Truth is stranger than fiction; and we often find incidents in real life which surpass the wildest creations of the novelist."

"My wife was a slave, and I was a slave, and though we were united as husband and wife, we had no legal right to each other, nor to our children."

"As my wife could easily pass for a white man, it occurred to us that she might travel as a sickly young gentleman, and I as her faithful slave."

"Slavery has no redeeming qualities; it brutalizes the master and degrades the slave, crushing out the divinest attributes of human nature."

"Though hunted like wild beasts through the land of liberty, we resolved to persevere, trusting in the God of the oppressed."

"It is not great things that we need to do, but things with great love."

"Prayer is an act of love; silence is not necessarily prayer, nor is speech necessarily lack of prayer."

"Do not let your minds wander outside yourselves if you can help it; for the Lord is within you, and you must dwell within yourselves with Him."

"The most important rule, and the one we must keep always before us, is that we must begin with a resolute determination to give ourselves entirely to God."

"We need no wings to go in search of Him, but only to find a quiet place and look upon Him present within us."

"Humility is truth; and it is a very great truth that we have no good of our own, but only misery and nothingness."

"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."

"People usually think that being strong means never feeling hurt. But actually, the people who are strongest are the ones who have felt hurt, understood it, and conquered it."

"To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life."

"God dwells within you, as you."