John Caird Quotes

• 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

  Powerful, Love Is, Self

  John Caird (1894). “An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion”

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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

  Men, Heaven, Kingdoms

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 523), 1895.

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