John Caird famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is other and larger than our own, yet which is most truly our own. For, to be ourselves, we must be more than ourselves. What we call love is, in truth . . . the losing of our individual selves to gain a larger self.
-- John Caird

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It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.
-- John Caird

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Carry religious principles into common life, and common life will lose its transitoriness. The world passes away. The things seen are temporal. Soon business, with all its cares and anxieties, the whole "unprofitable stir and fever of the world" will be to us a thing of the past. But religion does something better than sigh and moan over the perishableness of earthly things. It finds in them the seeds of immortality.
-- John Caird

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Religion is not a perpetual moping over good books. Religion is not even prayer, praise, holy ordinances,--these are necessary to religion--no man can be religious without them. But religion is mainly and chiefly the glorifying God amid the duties and trials of the world; the guiding of our course amid adverse winds and currents of temptation by the sunlight of duty and the compass of Divine truth, the bearing up manfully, wisely, courageously, for the honor of Christ, our great Leader in the conflict of life.
-- John Caird

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I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.
I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
People say love can be developed, but in the end, the only person you love is yourself. That's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most.
For us who choose our dreams over our love the only thing we can do for love is perhaps to release the lock around our necks. Through that, the pain may vanish.
One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
Sensual is being in tune with your sensual self.
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

John Caird famous quotes

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