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Time and pains will do anything.
Christ within us, the hope of glory.
Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.
Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.
There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.
The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.
To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.
The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.
It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.
It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.
A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.
Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.
Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.
If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.
Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.
Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.
Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.
Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.
It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.