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Robert Collyer Quotes

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

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

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

A man's best friends are his ten fingers.

Robert Collyer
Best Friend, Friendship, Men

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.

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

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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