38 quotes
Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Spiritual Conferences (1859)
There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.
Spiritual Conferences (1859)
We must have passed through life very unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.
Spiritual Conferences (1859)
To children is there any happiness which is not also noise?
Spiritual Conferences (1859)
Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.
The Creator and the Creature (1858)
The hardest thing in the world is to think, that is, to think real thought.
Exactness in little duties is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.
Growth in Holiness (1855)
A spiritual life without a very large allowance of disquietude in it is no spiritual life at all. It is but a flattering superstition of self-love.
Spiritual Conferences (1859)
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Hymns (1871)
This world is … only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.
The Creator and the Creature (1858)
The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone,
Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan.
Hymns (1871)
Faith is a letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the divine command, not knowing what we shall take.
For right is right, since God is God;
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin.
Hymns (1871)
O Paradise! O Paradise!
The world is growing old;
Who would not be at rest and free
Where love is never cold?
Hymns (1871)
If our love were but more simple,
We should take Him at His word;
And our lives would be all sunshine
In the sweetness of the Lord.
Hymns (1871)
The very attempt to be like our dearest Lord is already a well-spring of sweetness within us, flowing with an easy grace over all who come within our reach.
Spiritual Conferences (1859)
"The one chosen shadow of God upon earth."
Dear Lord! in all our loneliest pains
Thou hast the largest share,
And that which is unbearable
'Tis Thine, not ours, to bear.
Hymns (1871)
When men do anything for God, the very least thing, they never know where it will end, nor what amount of work it will do for Him. Love's secret, therefore, is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.
All for Jesus (1854)