Charles Henry Parkhurst
Charles Henry Parkhurst
Charles Henry Parkhurstwas an American clergyman and social reformer, born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Although scholarly and reserved, he preached two sermons in 1892 in which he attacked the political corruption of New York City government. Backed by the evidence he collected, his statements led to both the exposure of Tammany Hall and to subsequent social and political reforms...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
CountryUnited States of America
motivation overhead humans
Human success is a quotation from overhead.
life past
In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.
curiosity entering edges
Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.
benefits agents indifference
Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.
delicacy spirit sin
Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.
Every thought was once a poem.
safe inspired virtue
Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.
true-man grows core
All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.
handmaids labor
Labor is the handmaid of religion.
mistake too-much virtue
It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.
crush friday sorrow
Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.
energy purpose
Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.
life-is-short men circles
A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle.
ideals
Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.