The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
Charles Henry ParkhurstFaith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
Charles Henry ParkhurstFaith 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 ParkhurstA 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.
Charles Henry ParkhurstHell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.
Charles Henry ParkhurstFaith 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 ParkhurstMy 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 ParkhurstGenius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.
Charles Henry ParkhurstLaws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.
Charles Henry ParkhurstSo 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 ParkhurstPity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.
Charles Henry ParkhurstChrist 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 ParkhurstAll great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
Charles Henry ParkhurstIt 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.
Charles Henry ParkhurstLittle works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.
Charles Henry ParkhurstAnd 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 ParkhurstSin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.
Charles Henry ParkhurstThere 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 ParkhurstScience 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