Our Savior's great rule, that we should love our neighbors as ourselves, is such a fundamental truth for the regulating of human society, that, by that alone, one might without difficulty determine all the cases and doubts in social morality. |
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. |
Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule. |
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. |
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. |
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. |
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. |
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. |
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. |
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men.- It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter.- It is all pure. |
The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate |
The discipline of desire is the background of character. |
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. |
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all hte states of created beings, capable of law, where there is no law there is no freedom. |
The great question (about power) is who should have it |