Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

“Life is the assimilation of disconnected things.”

“Every human soul has a germ of some flowers within, and they would open if they could only find sunshine and free air to expand in.”

“The Bible is the most thought-suggesting book in the world.”

“Enthusiasm is the salt of the earth. After the first moments of ecstasy, it is the touchstone of sincerity.”

“Let us be content to work, to do the thing we can, and not presume to fret because it's little.”

“The great object of the Christian is duty; not to be finding out what will please him, but what he is bound to do.”

“To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.”

“The principle of Protestantism, and the secret of its strength, is the private judgment of the individual.”

“It is the very mark of a perverse and crooked generation, that they will not recognize the simple, the natural, the homely, the everyday goodness, which is the best and most universal kind of goodness.”

“The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing is to do it but once, and think that is enough.”

“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”

“The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”