List of Thomas Guthrie Quotes

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Thomas Guthrie
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The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.
Flower Maturity Atmosphere
Perhaps god does with his heavenly garden as we do with our own. he may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age--flowers before they have bloomed and trees ere they begin to bear.
Flower Garden Tree
In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.
Beautiful Nature Children
The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the new testament.
New Testament Novel Testament
The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.
Night Age Lamps
Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?
Lord
You are so to put forth the power that god has given you; you are so to give, and sacrifice to give, as to earn the eulogium pronounced on the woman, "she hath done what she could." do it now. it is not a safe thing to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of a cold world. if you intend to do a mean thing, wait till tomorrow; if you are to do a noble thing, do it now,--now!
Mean Sacrifice Giving
The cry of distress lays hold of our lord's omnipotence. it is as easy for god to supply thy greatest as thy smallest wants, even as it was within his power to form a system or an atom, to create a blazing sun as to kindle the fire-fly's lamp.
Fire Omnipotence Atoms
Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.
Flower Heaven Grace
Time that weakens all things else has but strengthened the impregnable position of the believer's faith and hope and confidence. and as, year by year, the tree adds another ring to its circumference, every age has added the testimony of its events to this great truth. "the grass withereth, and the flower fadeth, but the word of the lord shall endure forever.
Flower Years Tree
Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.
Strong Religion Liberty
The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.
Hero Coward Immortality
  • Born: July 12, 1803
  • Died: February 24, 1873
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