Maltbie Davenport Babcock Quotes

The workshop of character is everyday life.

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.

You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Jesus does not want us to say, dead, for, He said, all live unto Him, though they seem dead to us.

This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

Life is what we are alive to.

Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea.

Don't let the good things of life rob you of the best things!

Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.

May death be no more than the bell that sounds when school is over, and going home, may I find that I had laid up my treasure in the right place.

The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

If you can help anybody even a little, be glad.

God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.

We should care, not so much about being recognized, as about being worth recognition.

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.

Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.