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.

— Aspiration

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

— Aspiration

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

— Aspiration

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

— Aspiration

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.

— Aspiration

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.

— Aspiration

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

— Aspiration

On what wings dare he aspire?

— Aspiration