Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Maltbie Davenport Babcock (American Clergyman)

Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1858–1901) was an American clergyman and writer. He authored popular hymns, including “This is My Father’s World.” His short career as a preacher was memorable for the extraordinary influence of his personality and his preaching.

Born in Syracuse, New York, Babcock graduated in 1879 from Syracuse University and studied theology at the Auburn Theological Seminary, receiving his degree in 1882. Babcock was honored by a Doctor of Divinity degree from Syracuse University in 1896.

Babcock served as a pastor at a church in Lockport-New York (1882–87,) at the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore-Maryland (1887–1900,) and Brick Church in New York City (1900–01.) He led a fund-raising effort to assist Jewish refugees escaping the anti-Jewish pogrom in Russia in the 1880s.

Babcock wrote hymn texts and devotional poems, some of which were published in The School Hymnal (1899.) Extracts from his sermons and poems were published as Thoughts for Everyday Living (1901.)

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Be strong!
It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong
How hard the battle goes, the day how long
Faint not – fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Topics: Endurance, Resolve, Perseverance

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Topics: Business

Be strong!
We are not here to play, to dream, to drift;
We have hard work to do and loads to lift;
Shun not the struggle—face it; ’tis God’s gift.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Topics: Time Management, Value of Time, Work

Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth – rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Topics: Perseverance

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Topics: Prayer

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Every one must be challenged. A day, dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. The face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet the supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Topics: Opportunities, Opportunity

One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic—something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word “decide” contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success. Remember the Chinese proverb, “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.”
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Topics: Perseverance

Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see. Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Topics: Blessings, Trouble, Gratitude, Adversity

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