Occupation: Author Birth: December 13, 1815 Death: July 18, 1881
In the true, original, catholic, evangelical religion of Jesus Christ, and in this alone, all the divided religions of Christendom find their union, ….
Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear..
Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to be rendered to those to….
The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the con….
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness..
The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, ….
Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil..
Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Ch….
I think in reality the Japanese have to make changes in monetary policy, otherwise we're still going to be dealing with some upward pressure on the y….
Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a ….
In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom.
Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacri….
High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of etern….
Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in….
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way..
The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians..
You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into laws--they pass into do….
I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably neve….
Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and tru….
I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody..
The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter….