51 Quotes by Charles Henry Parkhurst

Every thought was once a poem.

Labor is the handmaid of religion.

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.

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.

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

We are religious by nature.

Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.

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.

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.