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James Hervey Quotes

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

James Hervey
Doors, Silence, Tongue
James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.214

Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.

James Hervey
Wise, Wisdom, Doe
James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.117

Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason.

James Hervey
Teacher, Intelligent, Men

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.

James Hervey
Religious, Flower, Love Is
James Hervey (1762). “A Collection of the Letters of the Late Reverend Mr James Hervey ... To which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Death”, p.297

Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws of nature or he perishes.

James Hervey
Men, Years, Law

Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

James Hervey
Bible, Mountain, Lines
James Hervey (1816). “Mediations and Contemplations: Containing Meditations Among the Tombs, Reflections on a Flower-garden, A Descant Upon Creation, Contemplations on the Night, Contemplations on the Starry Heavens, A Winter-piece ...”, p.136

God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight.

James Hervey
Bible, Flower, Different

The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

James Hervey
Wall, Tree, Fruit
James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.143

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

James Hervey
Giving, Religion, Dignity
James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.33

The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harvests of every climate, and renders our island the centre of traffic, but also as it secures us from foreign invasion by a sort of impregnable intrenchment.

James Hervey
Ocean, Islands, Climate
James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.90

The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

James Hervey
Sky, Heaven, Deities
James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.284

I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.

James Hervey
Christian, Believe, Thinking

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