John Campbell Shairp: Divine

John Campbell Shairp was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on divine.

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“The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.”

John Campbell Shairp

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 504.

Men , Education , Perfection

“The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.”

John Campbell Shairp

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 127.

World , Sense , Freedom , Perfection

“That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.”

John Campbell Shairp

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 61.

World , Imagination , Personality