8 quotes
Never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.
Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert' Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Faith does not first ask what the bread is made of, but eats it. It does not analyze the components of the living stream, but with joy draws water from the " wells of salvation."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Even when the shadows of trial are falling around us, let us "pass through the cloud" with the sustaining motive— "All my wish, O God, is to please and glorify Thee!"
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace — upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.
All Christ's public acts were consecrated by prayer, — His baptism, His transfiguration, His miracles, His agony, His death. He breathed away His spirit in prayer. " His last breath," says Philip Henry, "was praying breath."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)