George A. Smith Quotes

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
George A. Smith

Health, Happiness, Men

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
George A. Smith

Power, Past, Evil

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
George A. Smith

Religion, Life, God

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
George A. Smith

Life, Heart, Wealth

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.
George A. Smith

Love, God, Strength

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.
George A. Smith

Life, God, Heart

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
George A. Smith

God, Freedom, Evil

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.
George A. Smith

God, Best, Jesus

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
George A. Smith

Faith, Hope, Keep

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
George A. Smith

Mind, Single, Moment

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
George A. Smith

Peace, Nature, Past

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
George A. Smith

Power, Truth, Often

The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.
George A. Smith

War, Crime, Seasons

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
George A. Smith

God, Strong, Made

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.
George A. Smith

Life, God, Truth

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
George A. Smith

Pain, Become, Less

Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.
George A. Smith

Life, Strong, Words

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 26, 1817

Died: September 1, 1875

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