Occupation: Author Birth: December 10, 1824 Death: September 18, 1905
The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self..
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison….
Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion..
God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid..
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen..
Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great..
A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks..
Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body..
Beauty and sadness always go together..
Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will no….
"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask….
there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away..
Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhe….
Do not measure God's mind by your own..
Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand..
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise ….
The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind..
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the ….
Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstai….
It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another..
In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably..