Phillis Wheatley famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

  • Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

  • We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

  • What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

  • The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

  • The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.

  • God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

  • The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

  • Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

  • Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

  • Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.