Charles Parkhurst Quotes & Sayings

Character is,for the most part simply habit become fixed. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

The old echoes are long in dying. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of — Charles Henry Parkhurst

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. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

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. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

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. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

Purpose is what gives life a meaning. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

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. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

Any supreme insight is a metaphor. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

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

Faith is the heroism of the intellect. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

Purpose is what gives life meaning. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems. — Charles Henry Parkhurst