Charles Henry Parkhurst Quotes - Page 2

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

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

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.

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

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

The old echoes are long in dying.

Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.

Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.

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

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

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.

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

And let me say only this one word more: that the little things that a little Christian does are not any more than the larger things that an older Christian does.

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

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.

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.

All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.

We are religious by nature.

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.