Best 34 quotes of Charles Henry Parkhurst on MyQuotes

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.

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.

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

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.

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

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.

Labor is the handmaid of religion.

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

The old echoes are long in dying.

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

We are religious by nature.

If you will study the history of Christ's ministry from Baptism to Ascension, you will discover that it is mostly made up of little words, little deeds, little prayers, little sympathies, adding themselves together in unwearied succession. The Gospel is full of divine attempts to help and heal, in the body, mind and heart, individual men. The completed beauty of Christ's life is only the added beauty of little inconspicuous acts of beauty -- talking with the woman at the well; going far up into the North country to talk with the Syrophenician woman; showing the young ruler the stealthy ambition laid away in his heart, that kept him out of the kingdom of Heaven; shedding a tear at the grave of Lazarus; teaching a little knot of followers how to pray; preaching the Gospel one Sunday afternoon to two disciples going out to Emmaus; kindling a fire and broiling fish, that His disciples might have a breakfast waiting for them when they came ashore after a night of fishing, cold, tired, discouraged. All of these things, you see, let us in so easily into the real quality and tone of God's interests, so specific, so narrowed down, so enlisted in what is small, so engrossed in what is minute.