“The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.”
"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Awareness
"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Compassion
"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Hope
"The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Happiness
"He loves his country best who strives to make it best."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Courage
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity