George A. Smith

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

#again #contentment #depend #growth #happiness

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

— George A. Smith

#breadth #common #god #life #must

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

#base #certain #farther #finds #go

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

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

— George A. Smith

#entrance #every #evil #freedom #god

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

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

— George A. Smith

#fullness #hope #keep #looking #preserved

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

— George A. Smith

#conscience #inclination #listening #lives #mind

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity! ↗

— George A. Smith

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Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. ↗

— George A. Smith

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