Charles Henry Parkhurst
Charles Henry Parkhurst
Charles Henry Parkhurstwas an American clergyman and social reformer, born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Although scholarly and reserved, he preached two sermons in 1892 in which he attacked the political corruption of New York City government. Backed by the evidence he collected, his statements led to both the exposure of Tammany Hall and to subsequent social and political reforms...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational character habit
Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.
faith men giants
Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.
mean care regulation
Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.
law joy genius
So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.
black together sun
My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.
delicacy spirit sin
Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.
true-man grows core
All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.
Every thought was once a poem.
handmaids labor
Labor is the handmaid of religion.
mistake too-much virtue
It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.
crush friday sorrow
Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.
safe inspired virtue
Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.
religious religion
We are religious by nature.
energy purpose
Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.