William Morley Punshon Quotes

#1. All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

William Morley Punshon

#2. There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

William Morley Punshon

#3. Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

William Morley Punshon

#4. Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

William Morley Punshon

#5. The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of guilt and need and helplessness; and this is just what you do not like about it.

William Morley Punshon

#6. Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, and ray it out upon your fellows in this work-day world.

William Morley Punshon

#7. Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

William Morley Punshon

#8. We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

William Morley Punshon

#9. There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?

William Morley Punshon

#10. Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating - real in a generation of triflers - true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.

William Morley Punshon

#11. Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

William Morley Punshon