My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.
O, beautiful rainbow; - all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue, one shadow of night; Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear, And, bending above thee, the angels draw near, And sing, - The rainbow! the rainbow! The smile of God is here.
No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.
I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.
Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.
Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions.
When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.
Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd.
Within the book and volume of thy brain.
Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.