Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. — James McCosh Copy Share Image
Our Lord's miracles were all essential parts of His one consistent life. They were wrought as evidences not only of His power, but of… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past and present,… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral claims to… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
They who know most of God on earth or heaven know that they know little after all; but they know that they may know… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,— not only… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
