By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach. — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed. — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against infidelity and… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls,… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
You are a free man, and let no organization come between you and your best interests. Do not let any man, or any body… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a vast pyramid.… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by the earnest… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous,… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share
