James Hervey Quotes

#1. Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.

James Hervey

#2. The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

James Hervey

#3. Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

James Hervey

#4. Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.

James Hervey

#5. Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

James Hervey

#6. I believe in treating others as I want to be treated
but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.

James Hervey

#7. Religion gives a dignity to distress.

James Hervey

#8. God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight.

James Hervey

#9. The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

James Hervey