John H. Vincent, fully John Heyl Vincent

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

I will this day try to live a simple, sincere, and serene life; repelling promptly every thought of discontent, anxiety, discouragement, impurity, and self-seeking; cultivating cheerfulness, magnanimity, charity, and the habit of holy silence; exercising economy in expenditure, carefulness in conversation, diligence in appointed service, fidelity to every trust, and a childlike trust in God.

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.