Aspiration

“I could hear the mild voice of my Companion pointing the moral of my vision, and stimulating me to aspire, and to teach others to aspire.”

“There is not a heart but has its moments of longing,— yearning for something better, nobler, holier than it knows now.”

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.”

“The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.”

“Aspiration, worthy ambition, desires for higher good for good ends — all these indicate a soul that recognizes the beckoning hand of the good Father who would call us homeward towards Himself — all these are the ground and justification for a Christian discontent; but a murmuring, questioning, fault-finding spirit has direct and sympathetic alliance with nothing but the infernal.”

“In truth, there is no religion, no worship in our prosperity and ease. So far as we are happy, we are in a state of satisfied desire; so far as we are religious, we are in a state of aspiration and unsatisfied desire.”

“Father! forgive the heart that clingsAscend into a purer clime.”

“On what wings dare he aspire?”