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,… — 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
The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at all. When… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
