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Rh There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul. —.

The strongest love which the human heart has ever felt has been that for its Heavenly Parent. Was it not then constituted for this love? —.

As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being. God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard. —.

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak. —.

Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul. —.

Every thing here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul? —.

It is only when we see in human souls, taken as germs of power, a future magnitude and majesty transcending all present measures, that we come into any fit conception at all of Christ's mission to the world.