From Regret to Resolution by Canon Farrar

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 12, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 46.

From Regret to Resolution

By Canon Farrar

We can not rightly carry out any true or noble object in life in a spirit of despondency. . . . A depressed life—a life which has ceased to believe in its own sacredness, its own capabilities, its own mission—a life which contentedly sinks into querulous egotism or vegetating aimlessness—has become, so far as the world is concerned, a maimed and useless life. All our lives are in some sense a “might have been;” the very best of us must feel, I suppose, in sad and thoughtful moments, that he might have been transcendently nobler and greater and loftier than he is; but while life lasts every “might have been” should lead, not to vain regrets, but to manly resolutions; it should be but the dark background to a “may be” and “will be yet.”—Canon Farrar.