12 Quotes by George Smith
- God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.
- Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
- Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
- The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
- Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
- Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.
- The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.
- Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
- Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
- Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
- To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
- People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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