Quotes from Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

Human success is a quotation from overhead.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

We are religious by nature.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is apt to be corrupted by the company he keeps.