What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God. Topics: Humility |
If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking? Topics: Hypocrisy |
In judging of others, a man laboreth in vain, often erreth and easily sinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laboreth fruitfully. Topics: Hypocrisy, Judging |
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault. Topics: Hypocrisy |
How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves. Topics: Hypocrisy |
If you cannot mold yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking? Topics: Hypocrisy |
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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. Topics: Hypocrisy |
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. Topics: Idleness, Meditation |
In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved. Topics: Jesus, Love, Enemies |
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living. Topics: Jesus |
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs. Topics: Joy |
So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit. Topics: Laziness, Apathy, Habits |