Frederic Farrar famous quotes

04-17-2025

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.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Honesty #Kindness #Self
Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places."
-- Frederic Farrar

#Crush #Prayer #Fall
The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Knowledge #Evil
The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Women #Addresses #Might
There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Brother #Uncles #Names
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.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Teacher #Real #Character
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Men #Gambling #Sin
If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Laughing #Looks #Want
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
-- Frederic Farrar

#School #Philosopher #Scholar
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Lonely #Work #Men
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Men #Islands #Judging
It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a capitation tax, if this enrolment also involved taxation. But, apart from any legal necessity, it may easily be imagined that at such a moment Mary would desire not to be left alone. The cruel suspicion of which she had been the subject, and which had almost led to the breaking off of her betrothal (Matt. 1: 19) would make her cling all the more to the protection of her husband.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Husband #Journey #Desire
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!
-- Frederic Farrar

#Friday #Son #Rebel
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! "Let it be counted folly," says Hooker, "or fury, or frenzy, or whatever else; it is our wisdom and our comfort. We care for no knowledge in the world but this, that man hath sinned, and that God hath suffered; that God has made Himself the Son of Man, and that men are made the righteousness of God."
-- Frederic Farrar

#Friday #Son #Men
No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Men #Eternity
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.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Inspirational #Stars #Heart
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.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Truth #Believe #Men
Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Men #Liberty #Neighbor
The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ... "Remember it is better to be persecuted than to persecute." ... "Be not prone to anger." ... "He who giveth alms in secret is greater than Moses himself." ... "It is better to utter a short prayer with devotion than a long one without fervor." ... "He who having but one piece of bread in his basket, and says, What shall I eat tomorrow? is a man of little faith."
-- Frederic Farrar

#Life #Prayer #Philosophy
And now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid the cause of truth and righteousness, and that He in whose name they are written may, of His mercy, "Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in His wisdom make me wise."
-- Frederic Farrar

#Wise #Wisdom #Prayer
Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God had doomed this city to destruction as a polluted city, and was resolved to purge His sanctuary by fire, that He cut off these their great defenders and well-wishers; while those that a little before had worn the sacred garments and presided over the public worship, and had been esteemed venerable by those that dwelt in the whole habitable earth, were cast out naked, and seen to be the food of dogs and wild beasts."
-- Frederic Farrar

#Dog #Cutting #Thinking
If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.
-- Frederic Farrar

#Miracle #Atheism #Untrustworthy

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