A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
“Character gains through its expression, and loses through its repression. Love grows through its expression. Sympathy grows through its expression. Knowledge grows through its… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
It takes practice to use one's eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces. — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible. — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony. — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ. — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it. — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
