Inspirational Quotes by Norman P. Grubb

“The first key, put in a sentence, has been this: that our “evils” are never the happenings in themselves, but the effect we allow them to have on us. No matter whether objectively an experience is apparently good or evil, subjectively, to the one who fears and doubts, all is evil; to the one who trusts, all is good.”

“I started at the bottom and loved just one; and if you love one, you can love many; and if many, you can love all.”

“True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.”

“I always think that the essence of a good dinner- or breakfast-party is not the tablecloth, nor even the nature of the food, but the company. I think precisely the same concerning the Lord’s Supper.”

“He wants us to understand that we are only branches which have changed trees. We never produced fruit without a tree! To”

“But while I remained ignorant of there never having been such a tiling as human self-effort or human independence, I had not realized that all my own efforts to live a victorious life were really Satan expressing himself as me.”

“Professor Henry Drummond was telling how he had never thought it possible to give a definition of life, till he found one in the works of Herbert Spencer, who said that life is correspondence with environment. A child is born with five senses and various bodily organs, and each corresponds with something in his environment; the eye sees sights, the ear hears sounds, the lungs breathe air, and so on. "While I can correspond with my environment, I have life," said Spencer; "but if something happened to me which prevented me from corresponding with my environment then I should be dead; death is a failure of correspondence.”