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God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
Life is before you,— not earthly life alone, but life— a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
Power in its measure and degree is the measure of manhood.
The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life — the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.
The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
He could see naught but vanity in beauty,
And naught but weakness in a fond caress,
And pitied men whose views of Christian duty
Allowed indulgence in such foolishness.
The Marble Prophecy and Other Poems (1872)
If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.
The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain; and only faith can do it.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction — this is the New Testament method, and the true one.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Music was a thing of the soul—a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea—a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?
Every man who can be a first-rate something - as every man can be who is a man at all - has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.