Quotes from bellows henry whitney ii

Ah, think not meanly of yourselves, and sink into no common mass of being, as if your individuality were ever destructible or not all significant. You are bounded and confined by the impassable limits of that mystery we call "ourselves."

You can be nobody but yourself. You cannot hide away, nor be lost in any crowd. You carry the glory and the burden of your individuality.

God is a moral being, a being in whom justice, rectitude, goodness reign supreme. He has made man a moral being, and wound his nature up with the same moral weights that move is own divine life.

We do not undertake to quarrel with the laws of nature. Our ignorance oftentimes puts us in opposition to them, and a very expensive position we find it to be, because they never yield, and in the end, of course, we must.

Man's nature is in harmony with God's nature, in whose image it is made; so that there is not one truth in heaven and another truth on earth; one right for God and another right for man; one beauty for angels and another beauty for mortals; but the true, the right, the beautiful are universal in their nature and absolute in their authority.

It is the plainest and simplest of things that most daunt and confuse us.

And if moral truth has its high authority in the very nature of man, so that he who utters it nobly and faithfully needs no credentials but the truth itself, which is a cipher to which all men hold the key, so, again, the possession of the truth is the true and self-sealed commission to declare it, investing its holder with sacred and all-commanding powers.

Christianity cannot exist where death is believed to be the end of man; for men who believe that, not only lose their sense of God, but very soon their faith in moral distinctions.

The moment any man aims to live to his Maker's glory, to live like a man, and not like a servant of the world or the Devil, to live for God's eye and service, to live from the divine motive--the only saving on, love--which is alike love for excellence, truth, goodness, and love for God, and love for God's children--that moment the world with its false standards and prices recedes and falls into its place. Then the humble, the pure and good, become our true nobility.

There is in you, the least of you, what only God could give out of his inmost and highest being, a spiritual existence.

But it is clear enough that the Apostles thought this world so bad and so hopeless, that they believed it given over to speedy destruction; that only a remnant of it were or would become subjects of Divine favor, or participators in the salvation which they proclaimed.

To come from God, is to come from divine wisdom, love, and truth.

We cannot make things true by any amount of effort; we can merely discover what God has made true from all eternity.