"When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and……" — John Strachan
"When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity."
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24 Quotes by John Strachan
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To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
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The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called…
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In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel,…
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This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages.
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The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had…
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Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely…
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St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by…
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The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
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Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not…
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In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not…
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In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and…
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In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen…
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to…
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
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It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes…
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Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so…
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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
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Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and…
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is…
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As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell…
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style,…
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