All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative... as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door,... is an emblem of the state of man. On the brink of the waters of life and truth, we are miserably dying.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How miserably things seem to be arranged in this world. If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are su...re to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air and f...orest for our solacement? The sparrow seems always chipper, never infirm. We do not see their bodies lie about. Yet there is a tragedy at the end of each one of their lives. They must perish miserably; not one of them is translated. True, "not a sparrow falleth to the ground without our Heavenly Father's knowledge," but they do fall, nevertheless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »