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 expression. The artistic sense grows through its expression. The religious sentiment grows through its expression. The capacity for instruction, for administration, for command, grows through its expression. The more a man does in any line of… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share
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
