George A. Smith quotes

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. (George A. Smith)
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. View quote
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We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. View quote
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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. View quote
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Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up. View quote
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Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself. View quote
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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. View quote
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Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity! (George A. Smith)
Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
George A. Smith

George A. Smith

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Occupation: American Clergyman
Born: June 26, 1817
Died: September 1, 1875
Quotes count: 14