Top 31 Maltbie Davenport Babcock Quotes
#5. Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#6. Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them ... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#8. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#9. The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our dearest Brother, has brought human affection to its highest tide on the day of that Brother's birth. If God so loved us, how can we help loving one another?
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#10. Jesus does not want us to say, dead, for, He said, all live unto Him, though they seem dead to us.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#11. Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#12. Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#13. Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#14. Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, it is to be all but dead.
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#15. I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a right to dream dreams, if they are not contradicted by the evident laws of God's word, or God's world.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#16. 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.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#19. Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#23. If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday, it must prove on Monday that it was also a Sacrament.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#24. 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.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#25. God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#28. Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#29. 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.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#30. 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.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#31. You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
