Occupation: Clergyman Birth: December 13, 1835 Death: January 23, 1893
Death is strong, but Life is stronger..
The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now bec….
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided..
The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot..
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man..
Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in u….
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you..
Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly ….
The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without..
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty..
It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-ju….
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues..
Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the da….
Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life….
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to.
Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbor….
While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love..
Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done for T….
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him..
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for ma….
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it..