Clergyman Quotes

To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.
We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear.
We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.
What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.
You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.
Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Ideas are the root of creation.
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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