All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.
If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.
Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."
The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.
Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.
A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.
Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.
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