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The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)

It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.

As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.