Human soul Quote by 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…

— 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…

— John Campbell Shairp

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

The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to obey that…

— 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…

— 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,…

— John Campbell Shairp

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

— 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…

— John Campbell Shairp

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

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

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

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