George A. Smith Quotes

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• 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… Conscience
• 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… Contentment
• The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war. Crime
• To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain. Any
• Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. Man
• We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. Air
• If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it. Believe
• Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life. Been
• Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself. Appears
• Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself. Argues
• Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity! Deliverance
• Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up. Faith
• 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… All
• 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
• 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,… Far
• 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… Enthusiasm
• Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind. Changed

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