51 Quotes by Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

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

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.

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.

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

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