Henry Dyke Quotes (6 Quotes)

Gratitude is a twofold love love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death - and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her whitesails to the morning breeze and startsfor the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then, someone at my side says; There, she is gone; Gone where; Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someoneat my side says, There, she is gone; There are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the gladshout; Here she comes; And that is dying.

When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been and there you will always be.

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.