The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself. - Maltbie Davenport Babcock - Quotesmemo.com

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Maltbie Davenport Babcock

The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

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Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible, are less expensive and less expressive than the plain doing of duty. To have bread excite thankfulness and a drink of water send the heart to God is better than sighs for the unattainable. To plow a straight furrow on Monday or dust a room well on Tuesday or kiss a bumped forehead on Wednesday is worth more than the most ecstatic thrill under Sunday eloquence. Spirituality is seeing God in common things, and showing God in common tasks.

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God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.

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Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty. Let the world tell you in a hundred ways what your life is for. Say you ever and only, "Lo, I come to do Thy will, O my God. " Out of that dutiful root grows the beautiful life, the life radically and radiantly true to God--the only life that can be lived in both worlds.

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The workshop of character is everyday life.

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With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

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