Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

Henry R. Luce

We are the children of our own deeds.

Victor Hugo

He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

Henry Gratton

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.

Tahanie

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety

Samuel Johnson

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

Nikola Tesla

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

Groucho Marx

A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.

Proverb

Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have seen miracles or to have had encounters with messiahs and prophets and redeemers who were, like them, mere humans. And this is also why we will never submit to dictation from those who display a fanatical belief in certainty and revelation.

Christopher Hitchens

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Michael Caine

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

John Lewis