Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
From George A. Smith
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
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.
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.
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.
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