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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.
Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.
With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.