Henry Clay Trumbull: Quotes about God

Henry Clay Trumbull was Union Army chaplain. Explore interesting quotes on god.
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“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 197.

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 113.

“There is a great deal too much in the world, of the "heavenly-mindedness" which expends itself in the contemplation of the joys of paradise, which performs no duty which it can shirk, and whose constant prayer is to be lifted in some overwhelming flood of Divine grace, and be carried, amidst the admiration of men and the jubilance of angels, to the very throne of God.”

Henry Clay Trumbull

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 502.

“The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.”

Henry Clay Trumbull

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 378.