You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into laws--they pass into do…

- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, …

- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacri…

- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the con…

- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Ch…

- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.

- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in…

- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of etern…

- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley