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We doubt whether a man ever brings his faculties to bear with their whole force on a subject, until he writes upon it.
The greatest thoughts are wronged, if not linked to beauty; and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arranged in this their natural and fit attire.
Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The true office of religion is to bring out the whole nature of man in harmonious activity.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love; and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.
Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Religion, if it be true, is central truth; and all knowledge which is not gathered round it, and quickened and illuminated by it, is hardly worthy the name.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
It was religion, which, by teaching men their near relation to God, awakened in them the consciousness of their importance as individuals. It was the struggle for religious rights, which opened their eyes to all their rights. It was resistance to religious usurpation, which led men to withstand political oppression. It was religious discussion, which roused the minds of all classes to free and vigorous thought.
Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)