John Campbell Shairp: Quotes about religion

John Campbell Shairp was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on religion.
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“The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to obey that testimony which, I believe, God bears in every human heart, however dull, to those great truths which the Bible reveals. This, and not logic, is the way to grow in religious knowledge, to know that the truths of religion are not shadows, but deep realities.”

John Campbell Shairp

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 37.

“Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the child's heart, that most truly discerns the countenance that looks out from the pages of the gospel.”

John Campbell Shairp

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 168.

“They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.”

John Campbell Shairp

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 503.

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

John Campbell Shairp

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 493.