19 Quotes by Frederic Farrar

If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts.

The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.

By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!

A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves.

Man’s liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: “Love peace and pursue it at any cost.”

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.