Top 25 Quotes by James Freeman Clarke of 36 - Page 2

All the strength and force of man come from his faith in things unseen.

All the strength and force of man come from his faith in things unseen.

Men, Unseen Things, Wavering

James Freeman Clarke (1875). “Common-sense in Religion: A Series of Essays”, p.339

Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.

James Freeman Clarke

Years, Soul, Progress

James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!

James Freeman Clarke

Light, Darkness, Looks

James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

One of the best things in the gospel of Jesus is the stress it lays on small things. It ascribes more value to quality than to quantity; it teaches that God does not ask how much we do, but how we do it.

James Freeman Clarke

Jesus, Stress, Quality

James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the Gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life.

James Freeman Clarke

Hope, Growing Up, Spring

James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.

James Freeman Clarke

Hero, Men, Light

If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we find new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.

James Freeman Clarke

Running, Selfish, Taken

James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.

James Freeman Clarke

Philosophy, Two, Religion

Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.

James Freeman Clarke

Fall, Sunshine, Dark

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

James Freeman Clarke

Art, Children, Sculpture

James Freeman Clarke (1898). “Ten Great Religions: A comparison of all religions. 1898, c1883”