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We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.
James Anthony Froude
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James Anthony Froude
Age: 75 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 23
Died: 1894
Died: January 1
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I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.
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Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.
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Human improvement is from within outward.
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What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.
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Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship . From being the example of devotion, he is its object the religion of Christ ended with his life , and left us instead but the Christian religion.
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I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it.
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Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.
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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.
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That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.
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Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
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Morality rests upon a sense of obligation and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.
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Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
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Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.
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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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