Robert Payne Smith Quotes

Robert Payne Smith was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church from 1865 until 1870, when he was appointed Dean of Canterbury by Queen Victoria on the advice of William Ewart Gladstone. Wikipedia

✵ 7. November 1818 – 31. March 1895

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Robert Payne Smith Quotes

“The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, "the same yesterday, to-day, and forever."”

Robert Payne Smith

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 35.

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