Hannah Whitall Smith

Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray. Hannah Whitall SmithThe true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902 Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee. Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907

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George A. Smith

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.
George A. Smith

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.
George A. Smith

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.
George A. Smith

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
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.
George A. Smith

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
George A. Smith

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
George A. Smith

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
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.
George A. Smith

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
George A. Smith

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.
George A. Smith

The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.
George A. Smith

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.
George A. Smith

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.
George A. Smith

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
George A. Smith

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
George A. Smith

Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.
George A. Smith

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David Smith

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total In this business you either sink or swim or you don't. David Smith

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Alexander Smith

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A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
Alexander Smith

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
Alexander Smith

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Alexander Smith

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Alexander Smith

Books are a finer world within the world.
Alexander Smith

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
Alexander Smith

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
Alexander Smith

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
Alexander Smith

Everything is sweetened by risk.
Alexander Smith

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
Alexander Smith

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
Alexander Smith

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Alexander Smith

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
Alexander Smith

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
Alexander Smith

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
Alexander Smith

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
Alexander Smith

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
Alexander Smith

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Alexander Smith

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
Alexander Smith

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