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 never can have the religion.
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
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
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 …
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
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…
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
Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .
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
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…
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation? - John Campbell Shairp
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?
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 ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.
Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the child's heart, that most truly discern… - John Campbell Shairp
Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the child's heart, that most truly discern…
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
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…
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