Charles Cotton quotes

Charles Cotton quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.”
-- Charles Cotton

#Spring Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Blessing Quotes

“'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And there's the windflower chilly With all the winds at play, And there's the Lenten lily That has not long to stay And dies on Easter day.”
“[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.”
“The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.”
“The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about socialism with a human face.”
“Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.”
“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.”
“My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.”
“I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.”
“President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., a modern prophet, said over and over again that the Lord would never let one of his Saints who had been faithful in the payment of tithes and offerings go without the necessities of lifeâ€ (Marion G. Romney, â€œThe Blessings of an Honest Tithe,â€ New Era, Jan.-Feb. 1982, 45). Members who faithfully pay tithing are promised spiritual blessings as well. â€œI think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith”
“We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.”

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