universalists

"Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, Howe'er his own commence, can never be But an usurper."

"For righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see; To rule o’er freemen, should themselves be free."

"Maurice is equally opposed to the sacerdotalism which makes the essence of religion consist in a magical removal of penalties instead of a 'regeneration' of the nature. He takes what may be vaguely called the 'subjective' view of religion, and sympathises with Schleiermacher's statement that piety is 'neither a knowing nor a doing, but an inclination and determination of the feeling.'"

"As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor."

"If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?"

"God's glowing covenant."

"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character."

"Hatred is self-punishment."

"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."

"A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author."

"Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless."

"Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully."

"There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it."

"To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a. rock and another in the quicksands. Christ will either be to us all in all in point of righteousness, or else nothing at all."

"Faith is the nail which fastens the soul to Christ; and love is that grace that drives the nail to the head. Faith takes hold of Him, and love helps to keep the grip. Christ dwells in the heart by faith, and He burns in the heart by love, like a fire melting the breast. Faith casts the knot, and love draws it fast."

"The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works."

"It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature."

"All things change,—creeds and philosophies and outward systems,—but God remains!"

"One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else."

"Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system!"

"To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age."

"This Laodicean cant of tolerance."

"Place before your eyes two precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is—Put down enthusiasm! […] — the Church of England in a nutshell."

"There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment."

"Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market."

"Conviction is the Conscience of the Mind."

""Propinquity does it"—as Mrs Thornburgh is always reminding us."

"I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again."

"[T]he delight in natural things—colours, forms, scents—when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended."

"The only thing which can keep journalism alive—journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment—is—again, the Stevensonian secret!—charm."

"[M]y credo is very short. Its first article is art—and its second is art—and its third is art!"

"Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance—show yourself too much, and, like , they flashed away."

"We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realise all they tell us."

"Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it."

"Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?"

"A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject matter, when one comes to write about it."

"But the mind travels far—and mysteriously—in sleep."

"But no man has a monopoly of conscience."

"There is nothing more startling in human relations than the strong emotions of weak people."

"[T]he better life cannot be imposed from without—it must grow from within."

"How oft the word which we would gladly speak Might be, unto some darkly groping soul, The key to bid doubt's massive doors unroll, The free winds' breath upon the prisoner's cheek, Or. to the hungry heart, sweet pity's dole! We hurry on, nor know that they are near, As passed Evangeline the one so dear."

"Speak kindly to the erring; Thou yet may'st lead them back, With holy words and tones of love, From misery's thorny track. Forget not thou hast often sinned. And sinful yet must be; Deal gently with the erring one, As God hath dealt with thee."

"Speak gently to the erring: For is it not enough That innocence and peace have gone, Without thy censure rough?"

"Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land.Thus the little minutes, Humble though they be, Make the mighty ages Of eternity."

"Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our pleasant earth below Like the heaven above."

"How near another's heart we oft may stand, Yet all unknowing what we fain would know Its heights of joy, its depths of bitter woe, As, wrecked upon some desert island's strand, They watch our white sails near and nearer grow; Then we, who for their rescue death would dare, Unheeding pass, and leave them to despair."

"Little scraps of paper, Little crumbs of food, Make a room untidy Everywhere they're strewed."

"Think gently of the erring: Ye know not of the power With which the dark temptation came In some unguarded hour. Ye may not know how earnestly They struggled, or how well, Until the hour of weakness came, And sadly thus they fell."

"The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be from anything that is noble and good, true and upright, in art or science, in culture or education; the more joyfully will he applaud whenever he sees truth and justice and peace and the ennoblement of man prevail and become dominant in human society."

"The prophet of the new message came into their midst with the cry of "religion allied to progress"; he filled the blank, pacified their conscience and wiped out their shame. With this magic word he turned irreligion into Godliness, apostasy into priesthood, sin into merit, frivolity into virtue, weakness into strength, thoughtlessness into profundity."