Charles Henry Parkhurst Quotes

Quotes about:

Faith Purpose Science

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Sympathy, Heart, Two

46 Copy quote
Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Home, Heaven, Beginners

17 Copy quote
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Trust, Truth, Heart

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

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Running, Science, Men

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

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Men, Selfishness, He Man

9 Copy quote
Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Inspirational, Motivation, Character

4 Copy quote
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.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Mistake, Science, Thinking

4 Copy quote
Purpose is what gives life meaning.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Leadership, Giving, Meaning Of Life

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

Charles Henry Parkhurst

God, Science, Thinking

9 Copy quote
Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith, Men, Sun

7 Copy quote
Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Curiosity, Entering, Edges

4 Copy quote
Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith, Men, Heroism

8 Copy quote
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.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Crush, Friday, Sorrow

8 Copy quote
In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Life, Past

5 Copy quote
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Mother, Prison, Crime

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

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Clothes, Devil, May

4 Copy quote
Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Safe, Inspired, Virtue

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

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Christian, Prayer, Years

5 Copy quote
Labor is the handmaid of religion.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Handmaids, Labor

5 Copy quote
Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Energy, Purpose

4 Copy quote
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Character, Impulse, Steady

8 Copy quote
Human success is a quotation from overhead.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Inspirational, Motivation, Overhead

7 Copy quote
Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Heroism, Intellect

11 Copy quote
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.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Beauty, Inspiration, Eye

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

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Men, Giants, Kind

8 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Washington Gladden

Charles Loring Brace

Walter Rauschenbusch

William Graham Sumner

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Follow

Born: April 17, 1842
Died: September 8, 1933
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics