There is as much difference between genuine patience and sullen endurance, as between the smile of love, and the malicious gnashing of the teeth.
—William Swan Plumer
Topics: Patience
We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.
—William Swan Plumer
Topics: Prayer
God may turn his ears from prattling prayers, or preaching prayers, but never from penitent, believing prayers.
—William Swan Plumer
Topics: Prayer
Real prayer seeks an audience and an answer.
—William Swan Plumer
Topics: Prayer
Meekness cannot well be counterfeited.—It is not insensibility, or unmanliness, or servility; it does not cringe, or whine. It is benevolence imitating Christ in patience, forbearance, and quietness.—It feels keenly, but not malignantly; it abounds in good will, and bears all things.
—William Swan Plumer
He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more.
—William Swan Plumer
Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns.
—William Swan Plumer
Topics: Prayer
Thoughts, even more than overt acts, reveal character.
—William Swan Plumer
Topics: Thought
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