Robert South
Robert South
Robert Southwas an English churchman who was known for his combative preaching...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
flower secret looks
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.
heart men life-is
A man's life is an appendix to his heart.
confidence built
Society is built upon trust.
heart flames ungrateful
Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.
men eden looks
Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!
perfection silence noble
It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.
pain sin
Pain is an outcry of sin.
passion mind drunkenness
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
true-friend heart made
A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.
despair littles limits
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
wise men mind
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
men temptation needs
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
heart iron guilt
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
opportunity men names
He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.