“In the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord”

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye

And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin.

To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go

Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?

A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good,

On the other hand … by virtue of our natural impulse, we must ever watch against the danger which lurks for our personal liberty in the power of the state.

The question is not if the candidate’s heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!

. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’

In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.

The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow’s harvest depends upon today’s ploughing and sowing.

With your hands carve out your own destiny.

Into the soft sand I will carve your name and let the ocean steal what little remains.

His love held the scent of lavenders, as i carved them into poetry.

I want to carve my insides out with a rusty spoon. It would be less painful.

A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.