51 Quotes by Charles Henry Parkhurst

The old echoes are long in dying.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

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.

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

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.

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.

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.