Maltbie Davenport Babcock Quotes

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.

Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.

Don't let the good things of life rob you of the best things!

The workshop of character is everyday life.

God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.

The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.

If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday, it must prove on Monday that it was also a Sacrament.

Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God.

Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift.

Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.

Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.

We should care, not so much about being recognized, as about being worth recognition.

May death be no more than the bell that sounds when school is over, and going home, may I find that I had laid up my treasure in the right place.

Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea.

If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship.

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

Life is what we are alive to.

To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.

Jesus does not want us to say, dead, for, He said, all live unto Him, though they seem dead to us.

If you can help anybody even a little, be glad.