Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.
Henry Clay TrumbullConscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.
Henry Clay TrumbullIt is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.
Henry Clay TrumbullIt takes practice to use one's eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a doctrinal statement of a truth with a living exemplification of that truth.
Henry Clay TrumbullA love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste.
Henry Clay Trumbull