One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word decide contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success.
Maltbie Davenport BabcockThe Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.
Maltbie Davenport BabcockGod be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.
Maltbie Davenport BabcockRemember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.
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