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[C]ompassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Life Thoughts (1858)
And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
If any of you should die today, could you say to God, "Lord, here is my life work. Thou didst send me into life with a handful of seeds, and here is my heart, like a garden, full of flowers"?
Life Thoughts (1858)
Every time your enemy fires a curse, you must fire a blessing, and so you are to bombard back and forth with this kind of artillery. The mother grace of all the graces is Christian good-will.
Any law that takes hold of a man’s daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it only serves to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Life Thoughts (1858)
Everyman is full of music, but it is not everyman that knows how to bring it out.
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or cart.
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
Words are pegs to hang ideas on.
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Evidence of justice and law will make but a small impression on such a man, while evidence of goodness will make a prodigious impression upon him.
The Nature, Importance and Liberties of Belief (1873)
Live for the other life. Endure as seeing Him who is invisible. Work by faith; work by hope; work by love; work by courage; work by trust; work by the sweet side of your mind; and so be like Christ, until you dwell with Him.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
A servant is one who receives orders, and is not admitted to conference. He does not know about his lord's affairs.
The Nature Of Liberty (1873)
Let it be understood that the end of our existence here is that we may be more God-like [...] and that we are placed here to grow strong and noble, and not merely to enjoy.
Life Thoughts (1858)
The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
Life Thoughts (1858)
[N]o emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
I met a brother who, describing a friend of his, said he was like a man who had dropped a bottle, and broken it, and put all the pieces in his bosom, where they were cutting him perpetually.