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
three purpose salvation
Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.
leadership giving meaning-of-life
Purpose is what gives life meaning.
sympathy heart two
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
running men thinking
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
home heaven beginners
Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
beauty inspiration eye
There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.
men selfishness he-man
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
heroism intellect
Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
faith men giants
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.
mother prison crime
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
metaphor insight supreme
Any supreme insight is a metaphor.
mistake science thinking
Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.
black together sun
My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.
law joy genius
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.