Ernest Howard Crosby famous quotes

A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own.
-- Ernest Howard Crosby

#Men #Progress #Age

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.
-- Ernest Howard Crosby

#Unity #Events #Facts

If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.
-- Ernest Howard Crosby

#Numbers #Meat #Would Be

No one could tell me where my soul might be; I searched for God but he eluded me; I sought my brother out and found all three.
-- Ernest Howard Crosby

#Brother #Soul #Three

We are humans who see clearly the barbarity of all ages except our own.
-- Ernest Howard Crosby

#Age #Humans #Barbarity

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.

The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.