Resolutely Quotes

(Luther could have solved this for us by coming out, but I can`t hate on him too much for his silence. As I`ve said before, artists get moral allowances the rest of us don`t. Their art is their get-out-of-jail-free card.) Luther`s only politics, ... were music and love: He lived for the love of music and believed resolutely in the power of music to heal by affirming love. In that sense, Luther was an ethicist who taught any of us who would listen as much about love as did James Baldwin or Marlon Riggs or Marianne Williamson any other seer for whom Love with a capital L is the ultimate act.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can`t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won`t want to worry.

The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.