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. — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
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. — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God. — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
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… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
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 trust--to trust ourselves to God, being sure that He will lead us right--to keep close to Him--and to trust the promises which He whispers through our conscience; this we… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share
That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
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 believe, God bears in every human heart, however dull, to those great truths which the Bible reveals. This, and not logic, is the way to grow in religious knowledge, to know that the… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share
There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
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,… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation? — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
It is quite certain that, if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
