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“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.”

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Charles Henry Parkhurst

Charles Henry Parkhurst (April 17, 1842 - September 8, 1933) was an American social reformer known for his work in child welfare and the temperance movement. His career and life experience are not well-documented. more

“Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.”

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“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.”

Mistake Virtue Too Much Goodness Be Good Mechanism Manly

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“Labor is the handmaid of religion.”

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