Hannah More Quotes
The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.
The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.
I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More
It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.
If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.
Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.
Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.