Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Wilfred Grenfell (Canadian Humanitarian)

Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865–1940,) a medical missionary, physician, and social reformer, is best remembered for his profound medical and humanitarian contributions in Newfoundland and Labrador. His life’s work was dedicated to delivering healthcare and social services to remote communities.

Born in Parkgate, England, Grenfell’s journey began while he was a medical student at London University in 1887. Influenced by the sermons of American evangelist Dwight L. Moody, he joined the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen that same year. Over the next five years, Grenfell served as a surgeon on the inaugural hospital ship dispatched to the North Sea fisheries. In 1892, he initiated missionary service for the fishermen of Labrador.

Grenfell not only founded the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen but also established the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador in 1899. Inspired by his experiences, he aimed to improve the living and working conditions of fishermen. His efforts encompassed the creation of hospitals, orphanages, and co-operative stores to support local communities. To reach isolated regions, Grenfell utilized innovative methods, including hospital ships and dog sleds, ensuring that medical services extended to even the most remote areas.

Among his published works, Vikings of To-Day (1895) provided an account of his experiences with deep-sea fishermen, while Labrador: The Country and the People (1909) documented his keen observations of life in Labrador.

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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of others, but from doing something worthwhile.
—Wilfred Grenfell
Topics: Excitement, Joy

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of the world is not.
—Wilfred Grenfell
Topics: Purpose, Helpfulness, Helping, Service

The word of God is the Christian soul’s best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the mighty.
—Wilfred Grenfell
Topics: God

Courage is always the surest wisdom.
—Wilfred Grenfell
Topics: Courage

The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now.
—Wilfred Grenfell
Topics: Christianity

But all knowledge has to be won — like every other thing that is worthy of us sons of God.
—Wilfred Grenfell
Topics: Knowledge

As one looks back through the ages, all the great men are men of faith: the Newtons, Faradays, Darwins, Marconis, men with faith which they confirmed by experiment. Luther and Garibaldi, Washington and Lincoln, men of action as well as thought, were primarily men of faith. But infinitely above all, Jesus himself is the supreme example of a man of faith. Even on his cross he was absolutely confident, though as far as any human eye could see then, his faith, judged by results, was
—Wilfred Grenfell
Topics: Faith

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