How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals.
Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.