Not who you're looking for? Others named John Campbell Shairp: British writer (1819–1885)
“Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.”
“They who seek religion for culture-sake are æsthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.”
“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.”
“Not as men of science, not as critics, not as philosophers, but as little children, shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
“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.”
“[T]he belief in a Divine education open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by Culture, supplements and perfects it.”
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