The smile of God is victory.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
God | Victory
Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God’s own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Patience | Rest
Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth’s gray morning is, The blessing of its noon.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Service | Temptation | Thankfulness
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Books | Music
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Discouragement | The Tongue
The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, but find the rock beneath.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Faith
You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Perseverance
His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Prayer | Service
Forever from the hand that takes one blessing from us, others fall; and soon or late, our Father makes his perfect recompense to all.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
God
Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Trust | God
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Romance
Oh, brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother; where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Peace
Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not the poor device of man.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
God
God’s providence is not blind, but full of eyes.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
God | Providence
From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Truth
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Peace
I’ll lift you and you lift me, and we’ll both ascend together.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Encouragement
Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
God
The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Prayer | The Heart | Love
One brave deed makes no hero.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Character
Beauty seen is never lost, God’s colors all are fast.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
God | Beauty
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Faith
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Truth | Business
Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Prayer
We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Scripture | Truth | Beauty