HILL, Rowland Quotes
(1744-1833), English preacher
We can do more good by being good, than in any other way.
We can do more good by being good than in any other way.
Life is but one continual course of instruction,—The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which time deepens into strength so that nothing can efface them.
There is a perpetual frost in the pockets of some rich people; as soon as they put their hands into them, they are frozen so they cannot draw out their purses.—Had I my way, I would hang all misers; but reversing the common mode, I would hang them up by the heels, that their money might run out of their pockets.
I don't like those mighty fine preachers who round off their sentences so beautifully that they are sure to roll 0ff the sinner's conscience.
Religion
I would give nothing for that man's religion, whose very dog and cat are not the better for it.
I do not want the walls of separation between different orders of Christians to be destroyed, but only lowered, that we may shake hands a little easier over them.
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