Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Worship demands the far distances of God; it protests against the little, the near, the material. It must love but it must… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
If God made no response except to perfect faith, who could hope for help? But God has regard for beginnings, and His… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
If a friend is the one who summons us to our best, then is not Jesus Christ our best friend, and should… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the ground are… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Lord, let me make this rule To think of life as school, And try my best To stand each test, And do my work,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible, are less… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty. Let the world tell you in… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
