Guidance & Wisdom
What a man loves, that that man is. What a man chooses out of a hundred offers, you are sure by that who and what that man is.
Acts, often repeated, gradually become habits, and habits, long enough continued, settle and harden into character.
Every step you take out of an angry and wrathful heart, and out of a sour, sullen, and morose heart, and into a meek and peace-making heart; out of envy and uneasiness, and into admiration and honour: on the spot your heavenly Father will acknowledge and will reward you.
Character comes up out of the will and out of the heart.
There are seasons in our lives when true prayer demands time, and place, and preparation, and solitude.
Weak, evil, and self-seeking men are near us, and we lean upon them, look to them, and listen to them.
Self-knowledge is at the root of all real religious knowledge.
You have all passion enough—far too much—in other things.
Without self-knowledge you have no real root in yourselves.
God’s truth and man’s goodness cannot dwell together in the same heart.
The world loves its own, that all men worship talent, while only one here and one there values moral character.
Nothing silences, and subdues, and sanctifies our passions but prayer.
A man’s character does not have its seat or source in his body; character is not a physical thing.
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