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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.
There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.