The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.
Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.
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