“There's a new tribunal now, higher than God's - the educated man's!”
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“There's a new tribunal now, higher than God's - the educated man's!”
“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure”
“I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found”
“God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray”
“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ”
“Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments”
“There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God”
“It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results”
“However many blessings we expect from God, his infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts”
“When it is a question of God's almighty spirit, never say "I can't"”
“God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth”
“God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages”
“The only God whom our thoughts can rest on, our hearts cling to, and our conscience can recognize, is the God whose image dwells in our own souls”
“Conscience is an oracle of the divinity”
“The essential and unbounded mercy of my Creator is the foundation of my hope, and a broader and surer the universe cannot give me”
“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God”
“We are separated from God on two sides; the fall separates us from Him, the tree of ife separates Him from us. ”
“And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray”
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. ”
“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever”