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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.
Christendom, as an effect, must be accounted for. It is too large for a mortal cause.
Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
Doing justice, loving mercy, seeking truth...these are the issues [the Bible] is clear on.
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.
If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.
The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.
The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
It's beginning to feel like there is no room in America for anyone who is not a fundamentalist Christian.
There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.
Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.
Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.
It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.
O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.
When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.
In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.
If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.