Henry Giles: Duty

Henry Giles was Irish minister. Explore interesting quotes on duty.

Henry Giles: 30 quotes1 like

“Bearing bravely the evils that beset us, doing cheerfully the duties that are near, trusting in God, guided by Christ, fear shall not confound us in the way, and death shall find us ready.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 118.

“Brethren, we can rule our tempers, and we ought. Open the gospel, that most profound philosophy of the human soul, and yet most simple and practical directory of human duty; study it, fill your whole nature with its inspiration; set Christ before you; look upon His calm forehead and unstormed breast; think how He endured all contradiction of sinners, and endured them to the cross; and on the cross learn of Him then, for He was meek and lowly of heart.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 376.

“The materials of the first temple were made ready in solitude. Those of the last also must be shaped in retirement; in the silence of the heart; in the quietness of home; in the practice of unostentatious duty.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 45.

“Happiness is not the end of duty, it is a constituent of it. It is in it and of it; not an equivalent, but an element.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 297.

“Why should not our solemn duties, and our hastening end, render us so united, that personal contention would be impossible, in a general sympathy quickened by the breath of a forbearing and pitying charity?”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 47.

“Not until right is founded upon reverence, will it be secure; not until duty is based upon love, will it be complete; not until liberty is based on eternal principles, will it be full, equal, lofty, and universal.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 378.