May Quotes - Page 258

He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Could'st thou sip and sip it up; Make the most of life you may; Life is short and wears away.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'.

We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.