Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.
Tempests may shake our dwellings and dissipate our commerce, but they scourge before them the lazy elements, which otherwise would stagnate into pestilence.
Be thy best thoughts to work divine addressed;
Do something,—do it soon—with all thy might;
An angel's wing would droop if long at rest,
And God Himself inactive were no longer blessed.
When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ.
I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
I have never heard any thing about the resolutions of the disciples, but a great deal about the Acts of the Apostles.
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.
