200 Quotes by Henry Van Dyke

Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God’s out-of-doors.

Never believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary – and remember that God is listening while you tell it.

Oh It’s home again, and homed again, America for me. I want a ship that’s Westward bound, to plough the rolling sea.

The proverb says that ‘well begun is half done.’ But the other half is harder and more necessary,-to get a thing well ended.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas.

A tear that trembles for a little while upon the trembling eyelid, till the world wavers within its circle like a dream. Holds more of meaning in its narrow orb than all the distant landscape that it blurs.

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

And welcome home ye living sons America hath bred!