John Campbell Shairp Inspirational Quotes (5)

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

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

Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.