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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.
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Experience is the mother of custom.
We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.
A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.
When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Music cleanses the understanding;
inspires it, and lifts it into a realm
which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
