Frederic Farrar Quotes

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• By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!
• By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!…
• No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.
• If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of…
• A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines,…
• Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
• The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ... "Remember it is better to…
• And now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid…
• Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God…
• It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a…
• The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the…
• Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds…
• The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.
• The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.
• There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name…
• But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium…
• For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established…
• If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
• Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
• No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted…

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