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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.
