Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 67

Everybody in this world wants watching, but n.o.body more than ourselves.--H.W. SHAW.

O what a glory doth this world put on, For him who with a fervent heart goes forth, Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks On duties well performed and days well spent.

--LONGFELLOW.

Trust not the world, for it never payeth that it promiseth.

--ST. AUGUSTINE.

WORSHIP.--The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.--HOSEA BALLOU.

It is for the sake of man, not of G.o.d, that worship and prayers are required; not that G.o.d may be rendered more glorious, but that man may be made better,--that he may be confirmed in a proper sense of his dependent state, and acquire those pious and virtuous dispositions in which his highest improvement consists.--BLAIR.

Lord, let us to thy gates repair To hear the gladdening sound, That we may find salvation there, While yet it may be found.

There let us joy and comfort reap; There teach us how to pray, For grace to choose, and strength to keep The strait, the narrow way.

And so increase our love for Thee, That all our future days May one continued Sabbath be Of grat.i.tude and praise.

--OKE.

Remember that G.o.d will not be mocked; that it is the heart of the worshiper which He regards. We are never safe till we love Him with our whole heart whom we pretend to worship.--BISHOP HENSHAWE.

The best way of worshiping G.o.d is in allaying the distress of the times and improving the condition of mankind.--ABULFAZZI.

YOUTH.--The strength of opening manhood is never so well employed as in practicing subserviency to G.o.d's revealed will; it lends a grace and a beauty to religion, and produces an abundant harvest.--BISHOP MANT.

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very n.i.g.g.ard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.--J. HAWES.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.--HARE.

Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring.

Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.--RuCKERT.

Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently, is the forming, fixing period, the spring season of disposition and habit; and it is during this season, more than any other, that the character a.s.sumes its permanent shape and color, and the young are wont to take their course for time and for eternity.

--J. HAWES.

The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has pa.s.sed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others' that deserve it.--SIR W. TEMPLE.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.--ECCLESIASTES 12:1.

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.--J.T. FIELDS.

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.--DR. JOHNSON.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.--GOETHE.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.--FRANKLIN.

Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.

--HANNAH MORE.

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.--LYTTON.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.--GOETHE.

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.--DR. METCALF.

As I approve of a youth, that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man, that has something of the youth.--CICERO.

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.--RIVAROL.

ZEAL.--Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.--COLERIDGE.

Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.--BARROW.

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.--BUDDHA.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.--SHENSTONE.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.--JEREMY TAYLOR.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.--HOSEA BALLOU.

It is a coal from G.o.d's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.--WILLIAM PENN.

Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them."--BISHOP MANT.

Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either petulancy, ambition, or pride.--SWIFT.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.--NEWTON.

Zeal, unless it be rightly guided, when it endeavors the most busily to please G.o.d, forceth upon Him those unseasonable offices which please Him not.--HOOKER.

We do that in our zeal our calmer moments would be afraid to answer.

--SCOTT.