Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.
I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation.
If doing a good act in public will excite others to do more good, then ‘Let your light shine to all.’ Miss no opportunity to do good.
Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth.
One of the greatest evidences of God’s love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.
There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.
I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.
Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.
All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.
God’s command to “pray without ceasing” is founded on the necessity we have of His grace to preserve the life of God in the soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air.
The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.
Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.
The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock – cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock – ten thousand strangely carved forms.
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
It took thrift and savings, together with tremendous character and vision, to make our nation what it is today. And it will take thrift and savings, together with constant ingenuity and stamina, to conserve our remaining resources to enable us to continue to be a great nation.
It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.