Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
peace men thinking
The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.
christian blessing ends
Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.
prayer blessed praying
Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.
heart eye ahab
Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune.
horse devil spurs
If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.
four five-senses senses
Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?
humble heart stubborn
Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.
proud gout ends
He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.
holy discord profane
Better a holy discord than a profane concord.
heart mind vacancy
Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of—and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system…. The heart must have something to cling to…
heart way affection
The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one
kindness heart writing
Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.
prayer doe praying-to-god
Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.
ignorance light simplicity
The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.