It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good to us as though we knew a thousand reasons. I pray God to hold you quiet and patient and uncomplaining, and help you bear the weight of this seemingly unintelligible sorrow. I hope you will remember that this is the only world in which a Christian can suffer, and suffer patiently and meekly. We cannot suffer by and by. God helps us to glorify Him now, when we can.
To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown. - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.
- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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. - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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.
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 you… - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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 you…
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 the outward man may be the… - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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 the outward man may be the…
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. B… - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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. B…
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 kin… - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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 kin…
Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man. - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.
Lord, let me make this rule To think of life as school, And try my best To stand each test, And do my work, And nothing shirk. Should someone else ou… - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Lord, let me make this rule To think of life as school, And try my best To stand each test, And do my work, And nothing shirk. Should someone else ou…
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 fac… - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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 fac…
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