“If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.”
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Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer 1725–1807Related quotes

TIME interview (1977)

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 6, A New Understanding Of Ethics, p. 167

Told to New York Times on March 7, 1965 by Lewis, chairman of the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee and organizer of the Selma to Montgomery march after police stopped the demonstrators with violence.
Source: As noted on On This Day, BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/7/newsid_4318000/4318021.stm. (url accessed on October 22, 2008)

“Whoe'er he be, none more than human deem,
And each may speak as good to him doth seem.”
Nessuno e piu ch' un uom, sia chi si vuole:
Ognun puo dire a suo modo parole.
XVII, 22
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato

Source: Excerpts of Martial law speech (14 December 1981)
The Christ of the Indian Road (1925); Quoted by A. McD Redwood in Heresies Exposed (3rd edition, 1921) under the chapter Theosophy

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 195.