Religion Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

9 Religion quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

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Bovee’s concise maxims often distill big ideas into neat phrases. Here, his brief reflections on belief follow that pattern, delivering compact, thought‑provoking insights into the nature of faith.

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Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

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Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

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Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

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The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence…

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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can…

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The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and…

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Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes…

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A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time…

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Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the…

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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

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There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

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There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

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A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

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Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a…

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A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter…

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We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

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He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize…

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In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

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Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something…

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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

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It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

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