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Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character. - [Habit] "Behold the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin, yet your heavenly Father careth for them." He expatiates on a single flower, and draws from it the delightful argument of confidence in God. He gives us to see that taste may be combined with piety, and that the same heart may be occupied with all that is serious in the contemplations of religion, and be at the same time alive to the charms and the loveliness of nature. - [Nature] Benevolence is not in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth. It is a business with men as they are, and with human life as drawn by the rough hand of experience. It is a duty which you must perform at the call of principle; though there be no voice of eloquence to give splendor to your exertions, and no music of poetry to lead your willing footsteps through the bowers of enchantment. It is not the impulse of high and ecstatic emotion. It is an exertion of principle. You must go to the poor man's cottage, though no verdure flourish around it, and no rivulet be nigh to delight you by the gentleness of its murmurs. If you look for the romantic simplicity of fiction you will be disappointed; but it is your duty to persevere in spite of every discouragement. Benevolence is not merely a feeling but a principle; not a dream of rapture for the fancy to indulge in, but a business for the hand to execute. - [Benevolence] By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse. - [Evil] Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy--not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness--but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity. - [Holiness] Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies. - [Enthusiasm] Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony. - [Conscience] His eye is upon every hour of my existence. - [God] I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conforms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder. - [Christ (Saviour)] I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize. - [Education] I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour. - [Decision] If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to recognize a present and presiding divinity in all things. - [Holiness] In the wildest anarchy of man's insurgent appetites and sins there is still a reclaiming voice,--a voice which, even when in practice disregarded, it is impossible not to own; and to which, at the very moment that we refuse our obedience, we find that we cannot refuse the homage of what ourselves do feel and acknowledge to be the best, the highest principles of our nature. - [Conscience] Infidelity is one of those coinages,--a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul. - [Infidelity] Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy, on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year; you will never be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven. - [Goodness] O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements. - [Occupations] The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection. - [Death] The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby. - in a letter, quoted by Ruskin, "Sesame and Lilies", sec. I, 40 [Public] Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten. - [Fame]
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