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
metaphor insight supreme
Any supreme insight is a metaphor.
men giants kind
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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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.
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Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
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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 heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
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Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.
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The old echoes are long in dying.
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Purpose is what gives life meaning.