We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest conviction. But we are called on to t…

- John Campbell Shairp

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

- John Campbell Shairp

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

- John Campbell Shairp

There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts abou…

- John Campbell Shairp

They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they n…

- John Campbell Shairp

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in …

- John Campbell Shairp

The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to obey that testimony which, I bel…

- John Campbell Shairp

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

- John Campbell Shairp

The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, mor…

- John Campbell Shairp