Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.
God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.
God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
God’s sovereignty is not in His right hand; God’s sovereignty is not in His intellect; God’s sovereignty is in His love.
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man’s path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
A mother’s prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.