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The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.
I love justice, not for its consequences for bodily gain, but for itself, for the moral truth and loveliness thereof.
Ten Sermons of Religion (1853)
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion (1842)
Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God.
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion (1842)
Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not.
Man never falls so low, that he can see nothing higher than himself.
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.
Two Sermons (1853)
The world no doubt grows better; comfort is increased from age to age.
Justice is moral temperance in the world of men. It keeps just relations between men; one man, however little, must not be sacrificed to another, however great, to a majority, or to all men.
Ten Sermons of Religion (1853)
The universe itself is a great autograph of the Almighty.
I know what sin is-God only knows who is a sinner.
Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
Slavery is in flagrant violation of the institutions of America—direct government—over all the people, by all the people, for all the people.
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom (2007)
Christianity does not consist in believing stories in the Old Testament, about Noah's curse and all that, but in loving your brother as yourself, and God with your whole heart.
I am to do justice, and demand that of all, — a universal human debt, a universal human claim.
Ten Sermons of Religion (1853)
If it shall ever be so, still the great ideas which I have set forth, of man, of God, of religion, — they will endure, and one day will be "a flame in the heart of all mankind."
Two Sermons (1853)
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
Checklist For Life For Moms (2005)