There is a Difference Between Merely Living and Living Worthily
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty. To go to communion worthily gives God great glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a sloppail, give him glory too. He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.
But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.
. . . the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.
We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.
Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.
Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.
One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.
The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.
The man or woman who lives worthily now is in a state of salvation.
