Julia Ward Howe Quotes - Page 2

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat. Oh! be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.

Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.

I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.

The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord -

The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.

When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for.

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.