Quotes from Maltbie Davenport Babcock

A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.

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.

Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God.

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

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.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

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

The workshop of character is everyday life.

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

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.

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.

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

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Every one must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us

Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.

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.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

Life is what we are alive to.

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

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

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

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

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.

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