Quotes from Hannah More
Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.
- Hannah More
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.
- Hannah More
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
- Hannah More
All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.
- Hannah More
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.
- Hannah More
Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.
- Hannah More
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
- Hannah More
We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.
- Hannah More
Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.
- Hannah More
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
- Hannah More
A small unkindness is a great offence.
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
- Hannah More