Powerful Quotes by Rev. L. Goodwin
June 16, 2007 at 11:10 am (Quotes)
Rev. L. Goodwin
Adversities
It is interesting to note that seagulls and other shore birds face into the wind when they are at rest on the beach. This way they keep their feathers unruffled. It is only when we learn to face adversity with God’s help that we will manage to keep unruffled and calm.-Anon
“Never attempt to bear more than one kind of trouble at once. Some people bear 3 kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.” -Edward Everett Hale (US Senate Chaplain - 1822-1909)
“A kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” -Walt Disney (1901-1966)
“Cripple him, & you have a Sir Walter Scott. Lock him in a prison cell, & you have a John Bunyan. Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge, & you have a George Washington. Raise him in abject poverty, & you have an Abraham Lincoln. Strike him down in infantile paralysis, & he becomes Franklin Roosevelt. Deafen him, & you have a Ludwig van Beethoven. Have him or her born black in a society filled with racial discrimination, & you have a Booker T. Washington, a Marian Anderson, a George Washington Carver. Call him a slow learner; `retarded,’ & write him off as uneducable, & you have an Albert Einstein. “ -Ted W. Engstrom (1916-)
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” (William James 1842-1910)
“Life is short & full of blisters.” (American Negro Proverb
)“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” (Woodrow Wilson)
When he was 7 years old, his family was forced out of their home on a legal technicality, & he had to work to help support them. At age 9, his mother died. At 22, he lost his job as a store clerk. He wanted to go to law school, but his education wasn’t good enough. At 23, he went into debt to become a partner in a small store. At 26, his business partner died, leaving him a huge debt that took years to repay. At 28, after courting a girl for 4 years, he asked her to marry him. She said no. At 37, on his 3rd try, he was elected to Congress, but 2 years later, he failed to be re-elected. At 41, his 4-year-old son died. At 45, he ran for the Senate & lost. At 47, he failed as the vice-presidential candidate. At 49, he ran for the Senate again & lost. At 51, he was elected president of the United States. His name was Abraham Lincoln, a man many consider the greatest leader the country ever had. Some people get all the breaks.
“There once was an oyster whose story I tell,Who found that sand had got under his shell,Just one little grain, but it gave him much pain,For oysters have feelings although they’re so plain.Now, did he berate the working of Fate,Which had led him to such a deplorable state?Did he curse out the government, call for an election?
