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> [The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/the-belief-in-a-divine-education-open-to-each-man-and-to-all-men/)

[John Campbell Shairp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-campbell-shairp/)

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## More by John Campbell Shairp

> [The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/the-ground-of-all-religion-that-which-makes-it-possible-is-the/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/they-who-seek-religion-for-culture-s-sake-are-aesthetic-not-religious/)

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> [We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/we-are-not-called-on-to-believe-this-or-that-doctrine-which-may-be/)

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> [That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/that-image-or-rather-that-person-so-human-yet-so-entirely-divine-has/)

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> [The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to obey that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/the-main-condition-is-that-the-spiritual-ear-should-be-open-to/)

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> [There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/there-is-perhaps-no-truer-sign-that-a-man-is-really-advancing-than/)

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> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/criticism-is-not-religion-and-by-no-process-can-it-be-substituted-for/)

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> [For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/for-with-all-our-pretension-to-enlightenment-are-we-not-now-a-talking/)

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> [The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/the-sense-that-a-man-is-serving-a-higher-than-himself-with-a-service/)

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> [It is quite certain that, if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/it-is-quite-certain-that-if-from-childhood-men-were-to-begin-to/)

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> [Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/great-men-great-events-great-epochs-it-has-been-said-grow-as-we/)

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> [The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/the-belief-in-a-divine-education-open-to-each-man-and-to-all-men/)

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> [Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/not-as-men-of-science-not-as-critics-not-as-philosophers-but-as/)

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> [Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-campbell-shairp/beauty-comes-we-scarce-know-how-as-an-emanation-from-sources-deeper/)

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