American - Clergyman | June 26, 1817 - September 1, 1875
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
George A. Smith
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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.
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Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
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Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
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The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
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The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.
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To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
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We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
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If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.
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Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
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Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.
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Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.
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