“Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.”
“Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.”
“A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.”
“Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.”
“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
“All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.”
“Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.”
“Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!”
“The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.”
“Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.”
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
“He who does not serve God where he is would not serve God anywhere else.”
“Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.”
“I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.”
“We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.”
“Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.”
“Idleness is the key of beggary.”
“Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.”
“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”
“May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest”
“Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.”
“If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.”
“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.”
“A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.”
“Men to be truly won must be won by truth.”
