Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Henry Clay Trumbull (American Clergyman)

Henry Clay Trumbull (1830–1903) was an American Army chaplain, evangelist, and author. He is best known for his wide-ranging religious writings and as a pioneer of the Sunday School Movement.

Born in Stonington, Connecticut, Trumbull did not complete his formal education past the age of fourteen owing to poor health. In 1852, Trumbull joined the Congregationalist church and became the superintendent of a mission Sunday School. In 1858, he became the state Sunday-school missionary for Connecticut.

Ordained a Congregationalist minister in 1862, Trumbull accepted the chaplaincy of the Tenth Connecticut Regiment during the Civil War. He was captured in 1863 while searching for wounded Union soldiers but swapped a few months later. He rejoined his regiment in Florida, but was frequently under fire during the Siege of Petersburg 1864–65, and honored many of his fellow soldiers in his later writings.

After the war, Trumbull became a lecturer at the Yale Divinity School in 1888 and edited the Sunday School Times until his death in 1903. He was also a popular speaker and prolific author, writing such notable books as The Knightly Soldier (1865,) A Lie Never Justifiable: A Study in Ethics (1893,) and Prayer, Its Nature and Scope (1896.)

Philip E. Howard wrote The Life Story of Henry Clay Trumbull, Missionary, Army Chaplain, Editor, and Author (1870.) Trumbull’s autobiography is War Memories of an Army Chaplain (1898)

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Conscience is not given to a man to instruct him in the right, but to prompt him to choose the right instead of the wrong when he is instructed as to what is right. It tells a man that he ought to do right, but does not tell him what is right. And if a man has made up his mind that a certain wrong course is the right one, the more he follows his conscience the more hopeless he is as a wrongdoer. One is pretty far gone is an evil way when he serves the devil conscientiously.
Henry Clay Trumbull
Topics: Conscience

There are ever two ways of striving to fill one’s place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one’s self useful; the other, by striving to render one’s self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.
Henry Clay Trumbull

The average person cannot over-read without peril of mental plethora, any more than he can overfeed with impunity. Literary dissipation is as weakening in its effects as dissipation of any other kind.
Henry Clay Trumbull
Topics: Reading

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.
Henry Clay Trumbull

Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is—that we are taught by God’s word.
Henry Clay Trumbull
Topics: Conscience

It takes practice to use one’s eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a doctrinal statement of a truth with a living exemplification of that truth.
Henry Clay Trumbull

All that any one of us has to do in this world is his simple duty. And an archangel could not do more than that to advantage.
Henry Clay Trumbull
Topics: Duty

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise and profitable study of the Bible itself.
Henry Clay Trumbull
Topics: Bible

Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.
Henry Clay Trumbull

In the time of Jesus, the mount of transfiguration was on the way to the cross.—In our day the cross is on the way to the mount of transfiguration.—If you would be on the mountain, you must consent to pass over the road to it.
Henry Clay Trumbull
Topics: Trials

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