Henry Clay Trumbull Quotes

• Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Fe, Espiritual, Oración

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 221), 1895.

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• Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Valores

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• Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

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  Real, Real Friends, Being Loved

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• The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Land, Shadow, Tasks

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 378), 1895.

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• There is no human love like a mother's love. There is no human tenderness like a mother's tenderness......In all ages everywhere, the true children of a true mother 'rise up and call her blessed'; for they realize, sooner or later, that God gives no richer blessing to man than is found in a mother's love.

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  Mother, Children, Blessed

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• In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.

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  Real, Exaltation, Friendship Love

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• It has been said that the essence of teaching is causing another to know. It may similarly be said that the essence of training is causing another to do. Teaching gives knowledge. Training gives skill. Teaching fills the mind. Training shapes the habits. Teaching brings to the child that which he did not have before. Training enables a child to make use of that which is already his possession.

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  Niños, Enseñanza, Aprendizaje

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

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• Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.

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  Doe, Taught, Ought

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• It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.

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  Children, Parent, Mind

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

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• Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Jesus, Agony, Hours

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 89), 1895.

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• A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Bible, Wise, Preparation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 38), 1895.

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• It takes practice to use one's eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a doctrinal statement of a truth with a living exemplification of that truth.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Eye, Practice, Use

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 113), 1895.

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• A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste.

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  Children, Reading, Learning

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• He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

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  Children, Learning, Teach

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

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• Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its proper time, whether he enjoys it or not. The measure of a child's ability to do this becomes, in the long run, the measure of his practical efficiency in whatever sphere of life he labors.

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  Running, Children, Long

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

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• If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Jesus, Men, Sight

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 129), 1895.

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• No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.

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  Children, Views, Order

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

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• There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render one's self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Two, Self, Useless

  Quoted by Richard Foster in "Renovare perspective", Vol. 7, No. 2, April 1997.

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• An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Christ, Devotion, Proof

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 168), 1895.

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• Hay demasiado en el mundo, de la "mentalidad celestial" que se gasta en la contemplación de las alegrías del paraíso, que no realiza ningún deber que pueda eludir, y cuya oración constante es ser levantado en alguna inundación abrumadora de la gracia divina, y ser llevado, en medio de la admiración de los hombres y el júbilo de los ángeles, hasta el mismo trono de Dios.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Oración, Ángel, Hombres

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 502), 1895.

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• In the time of Jesus the mount of transfiguration was on the way to the cross. In our day the cross is on the way to the mount of transfiguration. If you would be on the mountain. you must consent to pass over the road to it.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Jesus, Mountain, Trials

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 585), 1895.

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• All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty

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  Simple, World, This World

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• Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Jesus, Fruit, Might

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 315), 1895.

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• Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Confusion, Worry, Want

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 197), 1895.

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