John Campbell Shairp Quotes
1819–1885 Scotland
John Campbell Shairp (July 30, 1819 – September 18, 1885) was a Scottish critic and man of letters.
Also known as: J. C. Shairp
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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.
Culture and Religion (1870)
We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest conviction. But we are called on to trust—to trust ourselves to God, being sure that He will lead us right—to keep close to Him—and to trust the promises which He whispers through our conscience; this we can do, and we ought to do.
Culture and Religion (1870)