Quotes from Henry Clay Trumbull

Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.

He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.