Top 35 Maltbie Davenport Babcock Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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2. “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.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

4. “Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

5. “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

6. “Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

7. “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

8. “Don’t let the good things of life rob you of the best things!”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

9. “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.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

10. “Life is what we are alive to.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

11. “Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

12. “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.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

14. “Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

15. “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.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

16. “Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

17. “Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Every one must be challenged. 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.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

18. “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.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

19. “To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

21. “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 kindness, purity and love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, it is to be all but dead.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

22. “The workshop of character is everyday life.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

24. “Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

26. “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.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

27. “I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a right to dream dreams, if they are not contradicted by the evident laws of God’s word, or God’s world.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

28. “One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic – something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

31. “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.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

34. “The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our dearest Brother, has brought human affection to its highest tide on the day of that Brother’s birth. If God so loved us, how can we help loving one another?”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock