Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Quotes - Page 2

• In the true, original, catholic, evangelical religion of Jesus Christ, and in this alone, all the divided religions of Christendom find their union, their repose, their support. Find out His mind, His character, His will; and in His greatness we shall rise above our littleness; in His strength we shall lose our weakness; in His peace we shall forget our discord.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Jesus, Character, Greatness

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1864). “A Reasonable, Holy, and Living Sacrifice: A Sermon Preached in Westminster Abbey, on January 10, 1864, Being the Day Following His Installation”, p.18

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• High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Bible, Eight, White

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 33), 1895.

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• Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

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  Jewels, Age, Compass

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• It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Heart, Firsts, Christ

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1872). “The National Thanksgiving: Sermons Preached in Westminster Abbey: 1. Death and Life, December 10,1871; 2. The Trumpet of Patmos, December 17, 1871; 3. The Day of Thanksgiving, March 3, 1872”, p.15

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