Wendell Phillips Quotes

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

Jesus Christ was the most perfect being to ever walk this planet and he was persecuted and nailed to the cross … so please don’t be surprised when we get a little static.

The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.

Suffering saints are living seed.

It's not been a pleasant life.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

No cross no crown.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

In so many things, growth comes from adversity.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Muddle Through! ... so we do–wading through blood and tears that need never have been shed.

Progress includes Order, but Order does not include Progress.

A great revolution ... must ... be productive of hazard, vicissitudes, and perhaps calamity. But the question is for you, whether or no it is not worth while to pass through the ordeal of temporary suffering to establish permanent liberty.

Ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

I want to be a martyr.

Human history can be viewed as an endless search for greater order.