Top 40 Charles Henry Parkhurst Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Purpose is what gives life meaning.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

2. “The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

3. “Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

4. “The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

5. “Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

6. “Faith is the heroism of the intellect.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

7. “Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

8. “Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

9. “Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

10. “All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

11. “Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

12. “We are religious by nature.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

13. “Human success is a quotation from overhead.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

14. “Any supreme insight is a metaphor.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

15. “Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

16. “Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul’s great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

17. “Laws of Nature are God’s thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

18. “Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

19. “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.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

20. “There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

21. “All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

22. “Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

23. “A man’s longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

24. “Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

25. “Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

26. “Sin spoils the spirit’s delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

27. “The old echoes are long in dying.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

28. “Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

29. “In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

30. “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.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

31. “Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

32. “Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

33. “Every thought was once a poem.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

34. “The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

35. “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.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

36. “Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

37. “Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

38. “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.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

39. “And let me say only this one word more: that the little things that a little Christian does are not any more than the larger things that an older Christian does.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

40. “Labor is the handmaid of religion.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

41. “Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.”

— Charles Henry Parkhurst