Worship demands the far distances of God; it protests against the little, the near, the material. It must love but it must look up. It cannot live without the note of spirituality and universality, if not mystery. The ascension, the passing of Christ within the veil, answers this need. So does a full-robed Christianity add to definiteness of knowledge the outreach of imagination and home.
Maltbie Davenport BabcockMay death be no more than the bell that sounds when school is over, and going home, may I find that I had laid up my treasure in the right place.
Maltbie Davenport BabcockWe should care, not so much about being recognized, as about being worth recognition.
Maltbie Davenport BabcockThe Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.
Maltbie Davenport BabcockWhat is our hope but the indwelling Spirit of Christ, to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, to inspire every word and deed by His love? Then will "broken lights" blend in steady shining, the fractional be summed up in the integral, and life, unified and beautified by the central Christ, radiate God's glory, and shine with divine effulgence.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock