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Charles Henry Parkhurst

Charles Henry Parkhurst (April 17, 1842 – September 8, 1933) was an American clergyman and social reformer, born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Although scholarly and reserved, he preached two sermons in 1892 in which he attacked the political corruption of New York City government. Backed by the evidence he collected, his statements led to both the exposure of Tammany Hall and to subsequent social and political reforms.

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My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

Black, Together, Sun, Come, Against, Disk

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Character, Down, Impulse, Steady

In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.

Future, Life, Meaning, Past, Sustain

Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.

Directs, Energy, Purpose

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

Christian, Grow, Loves, Prayer, Years

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

Gives, Giving, Leadership, Life, Meaning, Meaning Of Life

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Purpose, Salvation, Three, Wedded

Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.

Busy, Ends, Science, Things

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

Faith, Men, Planets, Sun, Suns

Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.

Mistake, Science, Thinking, Bottom, Society

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

God, Science, Thinking, Tides, Nature

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.

Good, Manly, Mistake, Too Much, Virtue

Every thought was once a poem.

Thought, Poem

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

Beauty, Eye, Inspiration, Music, Spirit

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Faith, Giants, Kind, Like, Men

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

Clothes, Devil, Good, Hell, May

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

Agents, Benefits, Enough, Indifference, Recipient

We are religious by nature.

Nature, Religion, Religious

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

Deadens, Delicacy, Sin, Spirit, Spoils, Unwillingness

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Beginners, Heaven, Home, Interprets

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