“The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days.” PeopleCountryChristianCitiesMoralDutyCreditRevivalBeggarMonotonyDrunkardsCountry LifeMethodistsMoral DutyBacksliding Author:Corra May Harris
“There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.” PeopleKnowsMindSpiritFeltQualityFineBeatsWingsEnormousFranceLeapVocabularyEloquenceReluctantKinshipHysterical Author:Corra May Harris
“one trouble with all the churches is that they have too many incurable saints in them, men and women who pray too much and do too little, who cannot forget their own selfish salvation enough to look after other people's without feeling their own spiritual pulse all the time they are doing it. Of late I've sometimes suspected that it is nearly as debilitating to stay in the church all the time as it would be to stay in a hospital all the time.” PeopleMenLooksLittlesSometimesEnoughFeelingsWould BeSpiritualReligionChurchForgetToo MuchTroublePrayingLateMen And WomenSalvationSaintSelfishHospitalsPulse Author:Corra May Harris
“sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.” PeopleWellsOpinionAchievementSanityBalancedDunces Author:Corra May Harris
