162 Quotes by Hannah More

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his deathbed.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.

It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him or her the trouble of constantly hating somebody.