Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.
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.
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.
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.
Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else.
I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.
To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.