36 Quotes by Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.

If we show the Lord’s death at Communion, we must show the Lord’s life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday, it must prove on Monday that it was also a Sacrament.

The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.

Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.

Jesus does not want us to say, dead, for, He said, all live unto Him, though they seem dead to us.

I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a right to dream dreams, if they are not contradicted by the evident laws of God’s word, or God’s world.