Robert Collyer Quotes

• Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.

  Robert Collyer

  Faith, Kwanzaa, Harmony

  Robert Collyer (1867). “Nature and Life: Sermons”, p.4

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• God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.

  Robert Collyer

  Inspirational, Life, Spring

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• A man's best friends are his ten fingers.

  Robert Collyer

  Best Friend, Friendship, Men

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• Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.

  Robert Collyer

  Atheism, Institutions

  "Yesterday in the Pulpit". The New York Times, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 1882.

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• Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

  Robert Collyer

  Age, Remains, Old Age

  Robert Collyer (1871). “The life that now is, sermons”, p.303

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• The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June.

  Robert Collyer

  Beautiful, June, Extravagance

  Robert Collyer (1877). “The Simple Truth: A Home Book”

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