Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. Maltbie Davenport Babcock More Quotes by Maltbie Davenport Babcock More Quotes From Maltbie Davenport Babcock 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 brother kindness son 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 perseverance letting-go mistake The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself. Maltbie Davenport Babcock discredit disgrace christian 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 law dream reality 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 kindness steps littles Worship demands the far distances of God; it protests against the little, the near, the material. It must love but it must look up. It cannot live without the note of spirituality and universality, if not mystery. The ascension, the passing of Christ within the veil, answers this need. So does a full-robed Christianity add to definiteness of knowledge the outreach of imagination and home. Maltbie Davenport Babcock distance imagination home 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 sound home school We should care, not so much about being recognized, as about being worth recognition. Maltbie Davenport Babcock recognition care should If you can help anybody even a little, be glad. Maltbie Davenport Babcock glad helping littles You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with. Maltbie Davenport Babcock disposition responsible born Suggestion is generally better than Definition. There is a seeming dogmatism about Definition that is often repellent, while Suggestion, on the contrary, disarms suspicion and summons to co-operation and experiment. Definition provokes discussion. Suggestion provokes to love and good works. Defining is limiting. Suggestion is enlarging. Defining calls a halt; Suggestion calls for an advance. Defining involves the peril of contentment: "I am here, I rest." "Thus far," says Definition, and draws a map. "Westward," cries Suggestion, and builds a boat. Maltbie Davenport Babcock defining contentment definitions Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty. Maltbie Davenport Babcock loyalty fundamentals feelings To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown. Maltbie Davenport Babcock What is our hope but the indwelling Spirit of Christ, to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, to inspire every word and deed by His love? Then will "broken lights" blend in steady shining, the fractional be summed up in the integral, and life, unified and beautified by the central Christ, radiate God's glory, and shine with divine effulgence. Maltbie Davenport Babcock shining light broken Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God. Maltbie Davenport Babcock praying-to-god prayer mean
