20 Quotes by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.

It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God’s displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.

Most people would succeed above themselves.

You never get to the end of Christ’s words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs – they pass into laws – they pass into doctrines – they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.