John Campbell Shairp: Quotes about men

John Campbell Shairp was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on men.
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“Not as men of science, not as critics, not as philosophers, but as little children, shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

John Campbell Shairp

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 332.

“It is quite certain that, if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and carry them out into act, the power of conscience would be so strengthened and improved within them, that it would soon become, what it evidently is intended to be, "a connecting principle between the creature and the Creator."”

John Campbell Shairp

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 156.

“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.

“There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.”

John Campbell Shairp

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 565.