“Character gains through its expression, and loses through its repression. Love grows through its expression. Sympathy grows through its expression. Knowledge grows… — Henry Clay Trumbull Character 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… — Henry Clay Trumbull Believer 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… — Henry Clay Trumbull Accepting 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… — Henry Clay Trumbull Affection 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… — Henry Clay Trumbull Blind 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 Cost 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 Bible Copy Share Image
Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony. — Henry Clay Trumbull Agony 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 Christ Copy Share Image
Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it. — Henry Clay Trumbull Friendship 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… — Henry Clay Trumbull Attention 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… — Henry Clay Trumbull Angry Copy Share Image
Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are… — Henry Clay Trumbull Conscience Copy Share Image
There is no human love like a mother's love. There is no human tenderness like a mother's tenderness......In all ages everywhere, the… — Henry Clay Trumbull Age Copy Share Image
There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self… — Henry Clay Trumbull Attractive Copy Share Image
All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty — Henry Clay Trumbull Duty Copy Share Image
Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal… — Henry Clay Trumbull Fruit Copy Share Image
There is a great deal too much in the world, of the "heavenly-mindedness" which expends itself in the contemplation of the joys… — Henry Clay Trumbull Admiration Copy Share Image
In the time of Jesus the mount of transfiguration was on the way to the cross. In our day the cross is… — Henry Clay Trumbull Consent Copy Share Image
It has been said that the essence of teaching is causing another to know. It may similarly be said that the essence… — Henry Clay Trumbull Children Copy Share Image
Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its… — Henry Clay Trumbull Ability Copy Share Image
He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows… — Henry Clay Trumbull Children Copy Share Image
A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a… — Henry Clay Trumbull Acquired taste Copy Share Image
It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is… — Henry Clay Trumbull Bears Copy Share Image
Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved. — Henry Clay Trumbull Being loved Copy Share Image
