10 Quotes by William Morley Punshon

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of guilt and need and helplessness; and this is just what you do not like about it.

All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

Don’t aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don’t live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, and ray it out upon your fellows in this work-day world.

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?

Our days of praise shall ne’er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.