Hannah More
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.Collection: Forgiveness
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.Collection: Faith
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.Collection: Religion
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.Collection: Prayer
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.Collection: School
Sow an action, reap a habit.Collection: Action
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.Collection: Self
Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.Collection: Mind
All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.Collection: God
No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.Collection: Christian
He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has no time to pray must find time to die; he who can find no time to reflect is most likely to find time to sin; he who cannot find time for repentance will find an eternity in which repentance will be of no avail; he who cannot find time to work for others may find an eternity in which to suffer for himself.Collection: Time
The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.Collection: Education
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Collection: Ocean
What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.Collection: Prayer
We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.Collection: Mistake
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.Collection: Prayer
All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.Collection: Formidable
The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.Collection: Doe
The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.Collection: Religious
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; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.Collection: Heart
How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!Collection: Teaching
Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.Collection: Forgiveness
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.Collection: Taken
we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.Collection: Sacrifice
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.Collection: Knowledge
The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.Collection: Spirit
Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.Collection: Mistake
Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.Collection: Two
Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.Collection: Pleasure
Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.Collection: World
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 death-bed.Collection: Christian
Names govern the world.Collection: Names
The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.Collection: Evil
oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.Collection: Silence
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.Collection: Practice
nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.Collection: Mistake
he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.Collection: Time
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.Collection: Vanity
Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.Collection: Long
eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.Collection: Imagination
A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.Collection: Inspirational
Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.Collection: Pain