Charles Henry Parkhurst famous quotes

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Sympathy #Heart #Two

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Home #Heaven #Beginners

A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Life Is Short #Men #Circles

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Clothes #Devil #May

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Law #Joy #Genius

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Mean #Doe #Genius

Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Faith #Men #Heroism

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Faith #Passion #Soul

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Faith #Men #Sun

Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Energy #Purpose

We are religious by nature.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Religious #Religion

Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Crush #Friday #Sorrow

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Safe #Inspired #Virtue

Every thought was once a poem.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Delicacy #Spirit #Sin

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Black #Together #Sun

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Agents #Benefits #Indifference

All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#True Man #Grows #Manliness

Labor is the handmaid of religion.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Handmaids #Labor

It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Mistake #Too Much #Virtue

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Christian #Prayer #Years

And let me say only this one word more: that the little things that a little Christian does are not any more than the larger things that an older Christian does.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Christian #Doe #Littles

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Men #Selfishness #He Man

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Facts

Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Science #Busy #Ends

Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Science #Difficulty

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#God #Thinking #Law

The old echoes are long in dying.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Echoes #Long #Dying

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Heart #Eye #Brain

Purpose is what gives life meaning.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Leadership #Giving #Meaning Of Life

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Inspirational #Character #Habit

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Running #Men #Thinking

Human success is a quotation from overhead.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Motivation #Overhead #Humans

Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Mistake #Science #Thinking

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Metaphor #Insight

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Mother #Prison #Crime

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Three #Purpose #Salvation

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Heroism #Intellect

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Character #Impulse #Steady

In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Life #Past

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Curiosity #Entering

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Men #Giants #Kind