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Quotes from Robert Elsmere — Mary Augusta Ward

1851–1920 Australia

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11 quotes

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system!

Robert Elsmere (1888)

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Robert Elsmere (1888)

All things change,—creeds and philosophies and outward systems,—but God remains!

Robert Elsmere (1888)

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

Robert Elsmere (1888)

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

Robert Elsmere (1888)

"Propinquity does it"—as Mrs Thornburgh is always reminding us.

Robert Elsmere (1888)

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

Robert Elsmere (1888)

To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.

Robert Elsmere (1888)

Conviction is the Conscience of the Mind.

Robert Elsmere (1888)

This Laodicean cant of tolerance.

Robert Elsmere (1888)

Place before your eyes two precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is—Put down enthusiasm! […] — the Church of England in a nutshell.

Robert Elsmere (1888)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mary Augusta Ward (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.