You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.
No man, ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any.
Both man and woman have their own parts to play in bringing faith to the next generation, and the woman's role is particularly important. How can we ever think that the female sex is inferior when we...
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not th...
It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
Of all things guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities o...
How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the tim...
I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not i...