Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness.
A corrupt practice may be abolished but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired and in which great characters are formed.
All men desire the gifts of God but few desire God Himself.
Eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, and no rhetoric describe.
Luxury and dissipation as soft and gentle as their approaches are, and as silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices!
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible!
If I wished to punish my enemy, I would make him hate somebody!
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his deathbed.
Pride never sleeps it is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober but a proud man is never humble.
Anger is a violent act while envy is a constant habit. No one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.
Those who lack nothing are apt to forget how many there are who lack everything.
Expectation quickens desire. Possession deadens it.
We live in an age which must be amused!
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury.
Going to the theater, like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring which robs me of all my time.
Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children. He chastens them in love. He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare. He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.
When we read of Christian martyrs, we imagine that we could be one. When we come to act we cannot even bear a provoking word.
[Hannah More]
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