Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
—Hugh Miller
Topics: Wilderness
Atheism is the death of hope, the suicide of the soul.
—Hugh Miller
Topics: Atheism
The footprint of the savage in the sand is sufficient to prove the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God though his hand is impressed on the entire universe.
—Hugh Miller
Topics: Atheism
The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpreter of all revelations, and a key to all the seeming contradictions of truth in the physical and moral world.
—Hugh Miller
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
—Hugh Miller
Topics: Adversity, Opportunities, Problems
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