Top David Swing Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

David Swing Biography

David Swing (August 23, 1830 – October 3, 1894) was a United States teacher and clergyman who was the most popular Chicago preacher of his time.

Read about David Swing in Wikipedia

Random Authors

David Swing Quotes

The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics how he should acquire it, whether by honesty or fraud. Geography is a map of the world; ethics is a beautiful map of duty. This ethics is not Christianity, it is not even religion; but it is the sister of religion, because the path of duty is in full harmony, as to quality and direction, with the path of God.

Beautiful, Geography, Honesty, Men, Modern, Teach

As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature’s leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades—nature’s framework of their picture—so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry, but which demand the colored air and the bowers of poetry to be the setting of their charms.

Air, Bird, Dull, Highly, Leaves, Light

It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God. ' All that can here be affirmed is that what the religion of those two men lacked in theological details it made up in greatness. Their minds were born with a love of great principles. . . There are few instances in which a mind great enough to reach great principles in politics has been satisfied with a fanatical religion. . . It must not be asked for Washington and Lincoln that, having reached greatness in political principles, they should have loved littleness in piety.

Except, Greatness, Loved, Men, Satisfied, Two

The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.

Doe, Gives, Giving, Keep, Lies, Lying

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

Literature, Poppies, Poppy, Sermon, Sermons, True

The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nurtured. He touched the forest and it became to him a church in which the purest and noblest worship of God was observed. His occupation has become associated in our minds with the integrity of the life he lived. In Lincoln there was always some quality that fastened him to the people and taught their to keep time to the music of his heart.

Greatness, Heart, Integrity, Passed, People, Worship

Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.

Contrast, Ends, Pursued, Rest, Valuable

Julian Eltinge

Julian Eltinge

Omar Bongo

Omar Bongo

Daniel Espinosa

Daniel Espinosa

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Corky Siegel

Corky Siegel

Hsing Yun

Hsing Yun

Robert Venturi

Robert Venturi

Thomas Francis, Jr.

Thomas Francis, Jr.

Benedict Anderson

Benedict Anderson

Sandy Duncan

Sandy Duncan

Nicos Poulantzas

Nicos Poulantzas

Chogyam Trungpa

Chogyam Trungpa