Anglican theologian

Reginald Heber

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Notable quotes

“We deny our Lord whenever, like Demas, we through love of this present world forsake the course of duty which Christ has plainly pointed out to us.”
— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 189
“Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.”
— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 213
“Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness; and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick-bed with thorns, and rack our sinking spirits with despair.”
— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 547
“The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.”
— "Missionary Hymn", st. 2 (1819)
“Thou art gone to the grave; but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb.”
— "At a Funeral", No. II (1827)
“When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”
— "Hymn for Seventh Sunday after Trinity"; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 746

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