BERNARD.
NOBILITY.--He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own
resources, is a noble but a rare being.--SIR E. BRYDGES.
If a man be endued with a generous mind, this is the best kind of
nobility.--PLATO.
A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the
pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.--JAMES
A. GARFIELD.
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never
made one yet.--H.W. SHAW.
Be noble! and the nobleness that lives
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
--LOWELL.
Howe'er it be, it seems to me,
'Tis only noble to be good.
--TENNYSON.
OBEDIENCE.--The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of
Christianity is obedience.--HARE.
To obey is better than sacrifice.--1 SAMUEL 15:22.
Look carefully that love to God and obedience to His commands be the
principle and spring from whence thy actions flow; and that the glory
of God and the salvation of thy soul be the end to which all thy
actions tend; and that the word of God be thy rule and guide in every
enterprise and undertaking. "As many as walk by this rule, peace be
unto them, and mercy."--BURKITT.
Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is
dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.--SAADI.
He praiseth God best that serveth and obeyeth Him most: the life of
thankfulness consists in the thankfulness of the life.
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