Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Life
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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
Wisdom
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
Life
The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.
Love
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
Life
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
Life
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
Wisdom
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
Happiness
An aged Christian with the snow of time on his head may remind us that those points of earth are whitest that are nearest heaven.
Wisdom
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Wisdom
Pride is the master sin of the devil.
Wisdom
Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in His universe is linked to that which lies nearest the throne.
Science
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire; and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gate of heaven.
Wisdom
Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.
Wisdom