John Townsend Trowbridge Quotes

Some of us have young faith, some broken faith, and some mature faith.

God wants to help us and will bear our burdens.

The all-enclosing freehold of Content.

The birds can fly,
An' why can't I?

It is easy to think that we should put up a brave front and stay positive about all our struggles. But that is not the biblical model.

Hope is impossible unless we experience empathy and identification. We cannot feel hopeful that things will be OK unless someone understands what we are going through and gets it.

Though your experience may indicate that God has forgotten you or has left you alone, He is on your side. He is the God of grace, and He is actively working on your behalf.

The message of Scripture is that God wants us to connect both with Him and also with each other.

Trust in and value the benefit of God’s compassion and identification.

…the central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

We must exercise faith. We don’t pretend we’re fine. We don’t deny it. But we trust in Him.

Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are,
Lay folded in our infancy; the things
Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn.

Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God who is all-powerful…

Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive,
The blessing lies.

If you will observe, it doesn’t take
A man of giant mould to make
A giant shadow on the wall;
And he who in our daily sight
Seems but a figure mean and small,
Outlined in Fame’s illusive light,
May stalk, a silhouette sublime,
Across the canvas of his time.