Some people are proud of their humility.
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths--not until then can you know what love is.
A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.
The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
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