36 Quotes by Maltbie Davenport Babcock

If you can help anybody even a little, be glad.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.

Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, it is to be all but dead.

Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth – rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

The workshop of character is everyday life.

A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.