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A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field. - [Christianity] A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves. - [Native Land] All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light. - [Evil] All nature is a vast symbolism; every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. - [Nature] Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. - [Grave] An aged Christian with the snow of time on his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest heaven. - [Age] At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. - [Bravery] Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. - [Bigotry] Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt. - [Contempt] Conscience is its own readiest accuser. - [Conscience] Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. - [Eternity] Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. - [Courage] Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth. - [Death] Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality. - [Death] Do not ask if a man has been through college. Ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university. - [Education] Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God. - [Life] Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet. - [Ideas] Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. - [Action] Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. - [Gaiety] Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing. - [Goodness] Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man. - [Nature] Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness. - [Ideality] How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds. - [Affection] If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns. - [Heart] Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow. - [Impatience] Displaying page 1 of 4 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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