Charles Henry Parkhurst

“Purpose is the backbone of progress.”

“The men who have done the most for God and the world have been early risers.”

“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”

“The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.”

“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests.”

“We are not to be so concerned about waiting for God to do some great thing for us as to be always watching to find some great thing to do for God.”

“The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or power he is still a failure.”

“There is no more damnable and damning delusion than the notion that you can be <strong class="highlight">spiritualstrong> and godly without being manly and strong.”

“The saddest thing that can befall a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.”

“Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another.”

“Purity is the gate to liberty. Impurity is the gate to slavery.”

“A damnable pack of administrative bloodhounds, fattening on the promises of evil.”

“What makes one man a blessing and another a curse, is not so much what he does, as the spirit in which he does it.”

“The only way to get rid of a past is to get a future out of it.”

“The sun is always shining, only sometimes it is on the other side of the clouds.”