James Freeman Clarke: Man

James Freeman Clarke was American theologian and writer. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“What produced this divine serenity, subject to no moods, clouded by no depression, this perpetual Sunday of the heart? It was not merely good nature, not the accident of a happy organization. It was deeper than that. It was the perfect poise resulting from a Christian experience. It was the habit of looking to God in love and to man in love.”

James Freeman Clarke

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 477.

Love , God , Mood , Nature

“He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man "of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows."”

James Freeman Clarke

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 287.

Faith , Confidence

“A politician … is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation.”

James Freeman Clarke

" Wanted, a Statesman! http://books.google.com/books?id=oSNYAAAAYAAJ&q=%22A+politician%22+%22is+a+man+who+thinks+of+the+next+election+while+the+statesman+thinks+of+the+next+generation%22&pg=PA644#v=onepage", Old and New magazine, December 1870.

Thinking

“We must be something in order to do something, but we must also do something in order to be something. The best rule, I think, is this: If we find it hard to do good, then let us try to be good. If, on the other hand, we find it hard to be good, then let us try to do good. Being leads to doing, doing leads to being. Yet below both as their common root is faith, — faith in God, in man, in ourselves, in the eternal superiority of right over wrong, truth over error, good over evil, love over all selfishness and all sin.”

James Freeman Clarke

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 121.

Love , God , Truth , Faith

“The modern Christian does not retire into a cell to pray, but goes about doing good. He thus avoids the risk of narrowness, which attends the man who desires only to do the " nearest duty." But there is a danger here also,— that of shallowness. The man who is always giving, never receiving; always helping others, and never feeding his own soul, is in danger of becoming empty.”

James Freeman Clarke

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 566.

Soul , Help