SERMONS IN STONEPopularity is like a man's shadow: it is close by him when he walks in the sunshine of prosperity ; but when the clouds of adversity come over him, it quickly disappears.
No mother bird can detect danger for her brood more quickly or more surely than our souls can know the insidious voice of the tempter.
" I will be like unto God" was the proud cry that cast Lucifer into the abyss of hell. Yet it is likeness unto Christ that brings the Saints to the heights of heaven. Such a difference is there between pride and humility in the philosophy of life.
Have the daring of a great man if you have a great man's ambitions. The ribbon-seller needs only a few inches for his measuring rule; but the yard-stick of the astronomer is 100,000,000 miles long.
Perseverance can pierce any barrier that stands in the way of a strong will, just as the sun's rays, when properly focused, can go through a glass of ice-cold water and light a fire on the other side.
Bear up manfully when the tide of fortune is running low —even to the shoals of despair; and remember that it is often with life as with the ocean—the highest tides follow those that are the lowest.
Planets have only borrowed light; yet, like men of superficial knowledge, they shine in the early evening, before the great stars of night take their mighty places in the heavens.
Geologists may show us that the earth has lost the monster beasts of long ago ; but no historian can tell us that the human heart has lost its tendency to bestial vices.
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