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
mother prison crime
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
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Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
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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.
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Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.
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Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.
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And let me say only this one word more: that the little things that a little Christian does are not any more than the larger things that an older Christian does.
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Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.
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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
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The old echoes are long in dying.
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Purpose is what gives life meaning.
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Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.
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Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.
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Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.
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So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.