Quotes from Philip James Bailey
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
- Philip James Bailey
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
- Philip James Bailey
There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.
- Philip James Bailey
America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.
- Philip James Bailey
What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
- Philip James Bailey
But though the mass Be holy, yet the first-fruits God most loves.
- Philip James Bailey
Necessity, like electricity, Is in ourselves and all things, and no more Without us than within us; and we live, We of this mortal mixture, in the same law As the pure colorless intelligence Which dwells in Heaven, and the dead Hadean shades.
- Philip James Bailey
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
- Philip James Bailey
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
- Philip James Bailey
All ways are byeways but the way of God, So broad, not thought a road.
- Philip James Bailey
Any heart turned Godward feels more joy In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
- Philip James Bailey
And love is part and union in itself Of all that is in nature, brilliant, pure-- Of all in feeling, sacred and sublime.
- Philip James Bailey