Prayer.

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays. He that can live in sin, and abide in the ordinary duties of prayer, never prays as he ought. A truly gracious, praying frame is wholly inconsistent with the love of any sin.

Owen.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer-and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

Melanchthon.

Man is like a watch: if evening and morning he is not wound up with prayer and circumspection, he is unprofitable and false, or serves to mislead. Feltham.

Our prayers and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while one ascends the other descends.

Bishop Hopkins.

He that knows how to pray, has the secret of safety in prosperity and of support in trouble, the art of overcoming every enemy, and turning every loss to a gain; the power of soothing every care, of subduing every passion, and of adding a relish to every enjoyment. William Jay.

We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

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Colton.

Prayer is the Christian's vital breath,
The Christian's native air,

His watchword at the gate of death-
He enters heaven by prayer.

We, ignorant of ourselves,

Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit,

By losing of our prayers.

Shakespeare.

With boldness, therefore, at the throne
Let us make all our sorrows known;
And ask the aid of heavenly power
To help us in the evil hour.

Logan.

Temporal blessings Heaven oft doth share
Unto the wicked, at the good man's prayer.

Quarles.

Pride.

Ir a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

Sterne.

There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.

Richter.

There is this paradox in pride-it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Colton.

Earthly pride is like the passing flower that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.

H. K. White.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses, as if we had never offended.

Blair.

Pride, like ambition, is sometimes virtuous and sometimes vicious, according to the character in which it is found, and the object to which it is directed.

Lord Greville.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride the never-failing vice of fools.

Pope.

He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is
His own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle;
And whatever praises itself but

In the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

Shakespeare.

Procrastination.

PROCRASTINATION has been called a thief-the thief of time. I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer, and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul. Nevins.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Shakespeare.

To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it-this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

Tillotson.

Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer;
Next day the fatal precedent will plead;
Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life.
Procrastination is the thief of time;
Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves
The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

Young.

The means that Heaven yields must be embraced,
And not neglected; else if Heaven would,
And we will not, Heaven's offer we refuse.

Shakespeare.

Oh, how many deeds,

Of deathless virtue and immortal crime,

The world had wanted, had the actor said,
"I will do this to-morrow"! Lord John Russell.

Profanity.

NOTHING is a greater sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue. Jeremy Taylor.

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer whom he catches without any reward.

Horace Mann.

Profane swearing has always seemed a most voluntary sin. Most erring people, when they do wrong, count upon some good to be derived from their conduct, but for profanity there is no excuse.

H. Ballou.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low, that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. George Washington.

Profaneness is a low, groveling vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. I care not what his stand may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts; despite all his refinement,