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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
Life Thoughts (1858)
We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Humor is...nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.
Unjust Judgments (1874)
So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. "The kingdom of God is within you."
One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying " Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore."
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the using of strength.
We expect old men to be conservative, but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
Life Thoughts (1858)
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
Ye that mourn, let gladness mingle with your tears. It was your son, but now he is the nation's.
The Honored Dead (1863)
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence, — as a compliment from God.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
To the Christian, these shades are the golden haze which heaven's light makes, when it meets the earth, and mingles with its shadows.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow.
To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
I long to have the children feel that there is nothing in this world more attractive, more earnestly to be desired than manhood in Jesus Christ.
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.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
You are to accept as a Christian every one whose life and disposition are Christ-like, no matter how heretical the denomination may be to which he belongs.
Life Thoughts (1858)