Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Death Copy Share Image
Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Appeals Copy Share Image
All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this,… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Bad people Copy Share Image
No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Enough Copy Share Image
The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Art Copy Share Image
Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray. — Hugh Reginald Haweis Character Copy Share Image
The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Adversaries Copy Share Image
It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Baptists Copy Share Image
After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Begin again Copy Share Image
Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Emotion Copy Share Image
Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in, and the more we live and know of our own souls and… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Convinced Copy Share Image
Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt,… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Doubt Copy Share Image
It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Analysis Copy Share Image
Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Atmosphere Copy Share Image
To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content. — Hugh Reginald Haweis Being selfish Copy Share Image
No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man,… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Casts Copy Share Image
Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas!… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Alas Copy Share Image
Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings. — Hugh Reginald Haweis Feelings Copy Share Image
Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt. — Hugh Reginald Haweis Doe Copy Share Image
Personality is that which is most intimate to me—that by which I must act out my life. It is that by which… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Given Copy Share Image
The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy. — Hugh Reginald Haweis Instinct Copy Share Image
