Seven Sentence Sermons

1935

Adversity is the first path to truth. — Byron.

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It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused. — Davenant.

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Riches that the world bestows,
She can take and I can lose:
But the treasures that are mine
Lie afar beyond her line.
—Isaac Watts.

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When you put on your clothes, remember the labor of the weaver; when you eat your daily bread, think of the hardships of the husbandman. — Chinese Proverbs.

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Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. — Prov. 15:17.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard;
Some do it with a bitter-look,
Some with a flattering word;
The coward does it with a kiss.
The brave man with a sword.
—Oscar Wilde.

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The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. — Johnson.