The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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.
Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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.
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
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.
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.
The beginning is the promise of the end.
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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