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Arise, then, Christian women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears!
Mother's Day Proclamation (1870)
Life passes, but the conditions of life do not.
Beyond the Veil (1910)
Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.
The Walk With God (1919)
Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.
What is Religion? (1893)
Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
The Walk With God (1919)
The reason which placed the stars, the sense of proportion which we recognize in the planetary system, finds its correspondence in this brain of ours.
Beyond the Veil (1910)
In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.
Let us then willingly take the Eternal with us in our flight among the suns and stars.
Beyond the Veil (1910)
We, the women of one country, will be too tender to those of another country, to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
Mother's Day Proclamation (1870)
On the boundless sea of conjecture we are still afloat, with such mental tools as we possess to guide us, with the skies, the stars, the seasons, seeking a harbor from which no voyager has ever returned.
Beyond the Veil (1910)
Weave no more silks, ye Lyons looms,
To deck our girls for gay delights!
The crimson flower of battle blooms,
And solemn marches fill the nights.
What is the harvest of thy saints,
O God! who dost abide?
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What have thy servants for their pains?
"This only — to have tried."
I have made a voyage upon a golden river,
’Neath clouds of opal and of amethyst.
Along its banks bright shapes were moving ever,
And threatening shadows melted into mist.
Reminiscences (1899)
I gave my son a palace
And a kingdom to control,—
The palace of his body,
The kingdom of his soul.
Our spiritual life appears to include three terms in one. They are ever with us, this Past which does not pass, this Future which never arrives. They are part and parcel of this conscious existence which we call Present.
Beyond the Veil (1910)
I need not stand here to repeat any definition of what religion is. I think you will all say that it is aspiration, the pursuit of the divine in the human; the sacrifice of everything to duty for the sake of God and of humanity and of our own individual dignity.
What is Religion? (1893)
I go back to that great Spirit which contemplated a sacrifice for the whole of humanity. That sacrifice is not one of exclusion, but of an infinite and endless and joyous inclusion. And I thank God for it.
What is Religion? (1893)
I only hope you may be able not only to listen, but also to hear me. Your charity must multiply my small voice and do some such miracle as was done when the loaves and fishes fed the multitude in the ancient tune which has just been spoken of.
What is Religion? (1893)
I went to bed that night as usual, and slept, according to my wont, quite soundly. I awoke in the gray of the morning twilight; and as I lay waiting for the dawn, the long lines of the desired poem began to twine themselves in my mind.
Reminiscences (1899)
There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being able to make a sacrifice. These two thoughts come to me strongly this morning. It is something to have learned these truths so that we can never again doubt them.
The Walk With God (1919)