Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
True obedience is true freedom.
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.
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
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.
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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