Maltbie Davenport Babcock Quotes


If you can help anybody even a little be glad.

Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea.

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living just away in another room of our Father's house.

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings words deeds must be beads strung on the string of duty.

Life is what we are alive to.

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Good habits are not made on birthdays nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won.

Don't let the good things of life rob you of the best things!

Present suffering is not enjoyable but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire but steel is worth all it costs.

You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with but you are responsible for the one you die with.

We should care not so much about being recognized as about being worth recognition.

May 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.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

God be thanked for that good and perfect gift the gift unspeakable: His life His love His very self in Jesus Christ.

The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong how hard the battle goes the day how long faint not fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

If we show the Lord's death at Communion we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday it must prove on Monday that it was also a Sacrament.

Success is generally due to holding on and failure to letting go.

Be strong! We are not here to play to dream to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift.

The workshop of character is everyday life.

This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong God is the Ruler yet.

If you can help anybody even a little be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness God will lead you on to happiness and friendship.

To have failed is to have striven to have striven is to have grown.

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

Jesus does not want us to say dead for He said all live unto Him though they seem dead to us.