Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first therefore to seek them blindfold and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts the better will be his world and the world at large.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham and believe whatever is revealed from God though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son and therefore believed notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.
From a religious point of view if God had thought homosexuality is a sin he would not have created gay people.
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
Man is born passionate of body but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
However many blessings we expect from God His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
If I be worthy I live for my God to teach the heathen even though they may despise me.
God cannot alter the past though historians can.
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time at all times who suffers harm done to others whose greatest passion is compassion whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.