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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

Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses. — Simon Greenleaf

Thee lift me, and I lift thee, and together we ascend. — John Greenleaf Whittier

A person who rejects Christ may choose to say that I do not accept it, he may not choose to say there is not enough evidence. — Simon Greenleaf

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers. — John Greenleaf Whittier

And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain. — Robert K. Greenleaf

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Bathsheba! to whom none ever said scat- No worthier cat Ever sat on a mat, Or caught a rat. Requiescat! — John Greenleaf Whittier

Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Truth is one;
And, in all lands beneath the sun,
Whoso hath eyes to see may see
The tokens of its unity. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck,
And hear a cry from a reeling deck! — John Greenleaf Whittier

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks,
Through showers the sunbeams fall;
For God, who loveth all His works,
Has left His hope with all! — John Greenleaf Whittier

A felon's cell
The fittest earthly type of hell! — John Greenleaf Whittier

Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in. — John Greenleaf Whittier

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs. — John Greenleaf Whittier

And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to you glad. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The Present, the Present is all thou hast
For thy sure possessing;
Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast
Till it gives its blessing. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom. — Flannery O'Connor

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good! — John Greenleaf Whittier

If woman lost us Eden, such As she alone restore it. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Behind every impossible achievement is a dreamer of impossible dreams." - Robert K. Greenleaf — Brian P. Moran

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true. — Flannery O'Connor

Good leaders must first become good servants. — Robert K. Greenleaf

For still in mutual sufferance lies
The secret of true living;
Love scarce is love that never knows
The sweetness of forgiving. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls — John Greenleaf Whittier

No longer forward or behind
I look in hope or fear,
But grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues. — Robert K. Greenleaf

Man is more than constitutions. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Romance is always young. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. — John Greenleaf Whittier

This is truth the poet sings ... — John Greenleaf Whittier

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. — Robert K. Greenleaf

There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate. — John Greenleaf Whittier

And still we love the evil cause
And of the just effect complain;
We tread upon life's broken laws
And murmur at our self-inflicted pain. — John Greenleaf Whittier

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ... — John Greenleaf Whittier

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good. — John Greenleaf Whittier

God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed. — John Greenleaf Whittier

God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes. — John Greenleaf Whittier

I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Rest if you must, but never quit. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath. — John Greenleaf Whittier

And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Small leisure have the poor for grief. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!" — John Greenleaf Whittier

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

The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other. — Robert K. Greenleaf

We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew. — John Greenleaf Whittier

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. — John Greenleaf Whittier

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves! — John Greenleaf Whittier

That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true. — Simon Greenleaf

The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work. — Robert K. Greenleaf

And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace — John Greenleaf Whittier

The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. — John Greenleaf Whittier

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb! — John Greenleaf Whittier

And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong! — John Greenleaf Whittier

The still, sad music of humanity. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The hope of all earnest souls must be realized. — John Greenleaf Whittier

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death. — John Greenleaf Whittier

In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The smile of God is victory. — John Greenleaf Whittier

For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it. — Robert K. Greenleaf

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen. — Robert K. Greenleaf

Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The child must teach the man. — John Greenleaf Whittier

What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite? — John Greenleaf Whittier

Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream. — Robert K. Greenleaf

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee — Robert K. Greenleaf

The tints of autumn ... a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him to be an intellectual. — Flannery O'Connor

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

And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain! — John Greenleaf Whittier

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves. — Robert K. Greenleaf

We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one. — John Greenleaf Whittier

All the windows of my heart I open to the day. — John Greenleaf Whittier

There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn — John Greenleaf Whittier

Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm! — John Greenleaf Whittier

Along the river's summer walk,
The withered tufts of asters nod;
And trembles on its arid stalk
the hoar plum of the golden-rod. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others. — Robert K. Greenleaf

Beauty is its own excuse. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit. — Robert K. Greenleaf

One brave deed makes no hero. — John Greenleaf Whittier