J.R. Miller Quotes

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• The happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with grief, and where Christ's…
• Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.
• Too many of us never understand what we owe to our dear ones until there remains no further opportunity of paying love's debt.
• We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy.
• It is impossible to estimate full influence of the reading of the Word in a home day after day and year after year. It filters…
• A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in…
• It is supposed by some that religion makes people solemn, takes the sunshine out of their life, the joy out of their heart, the song…
• The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is…
• The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands…
• Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True refinement avoids anything…
• We can bear the heavy load without asking to have it lightened. We can keep the sorrow now and endure it. We can go on…
• Every moment brings us some benediction. Even the rough hand of trial holds in its clasp for us some treasure of love.
• This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great…
• The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.
• In the last analysis, home happiness depends on the wife. Her spirit gives the home its atmosphere. Her hands fashion its beauty. Her heart makes…
• God...made childhood joyous, full of life, bubbling over with laughter, playful, bright and sunny. We should put into their childhood days just as much sunshine…
• No [movie is really worth watching] which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of…
• Men with fine gifts think it worth while to live to paint a few great pictures which shall be looked at and admired for generations;…
• With all the infinite possibilities of spiritual life before you, do not settle down on a little patch of dusty ground at the mountain's foot…
• Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot…

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