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Quotes from The Nemesis of Faith — James Anthony Froude

1818–1894 England

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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

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Change is strong, but habit is strong too; and you cannot change the old for new, like a garment.

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The men that write books, Carlyle says, are now the world's priests, the spiritual directors of mankind.

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You will never have perfect men, Plato says, till you have perfect circumstances.

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Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion.

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Life complete, is lived in two worlds; the one inside, and the one outside.

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The absolute worth of goodness is seen as distinct from power; such beings as these demon gods could not he the highest beings.

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Belief is the result of the proportion, whatever it he, in which the many elements which go to make the human being are combined.

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There is nothing in it but what men might have written; much, oh much, which it would drive me mad to think any but men, and most mistaken men, had written.

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The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

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The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.

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I am convinced with Plato, with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin, and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it.

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Long devotions are a weariness to healthy children.

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I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

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Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.

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Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is.

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Our characters change as world eras change, as our features change, slowly from day to day.

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Nature made us men, and she surrenders not her children without a struggle.

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I would not so dishonour God as to lend my voice to perpetuate all the mad and foolish things which men have dared to say of Him.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Anthony Froude (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.