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Christ, then, raised men from religion as a bondage to religion as a freedom.
The Nature Of Liberty (1873)
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.
A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
Royal Truths (1869)
My life lies beyond the present.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes — openly bad and secretly bad.
Lectures to Young Men (1844)
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Whoever lives a noble life for Christ and God — he is one of God's workmen, working on that building of which God is the supreme Architect.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Our high mission, our noble calling, is to build up souls, to perfect the Christian life, and to make manhood acceptable to God, and radiant in the sight of all men.
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
Lectures to Young Men (1844)
What is evidence to a man will depend upon those of his faculties whk at work upon the things which are presented as evidence.
The Nature, Importance and Liberties of Belief (1873)
When, O crowned Jesus; when, O loving Saviour; when, O patient and just Judge — when wilt Thou come forth from Thy hiding, and change tears to smiles, and groans to joys?
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Work is healthy, you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.
I had as lief preach humanity to a battle of eagles, as to urge honesty and integrity upon those who have determined to be rich, and to gain it by gambling stakes, and madmen's ventures.
Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.
There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious out-look; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows!
Life Thoughts (1858)