Frederic Farrar Quotes

• Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves.

  Frederic Farrar

  Honesty, Kindness, Self

  Frederic William Farrar (1877). “"In the Days of Thy Youth.": Sermons on Practical Subjects, Preached at Marlborough College, from 1871-1876”, p.19

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• It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

  Frederic Farrar

  Self, Numbers, Soul

  Frederic William Farrar (1875). “The Life of Christ”, p.118

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• If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts.

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  Inspirational, Stars, Heart

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• A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

  Frederic Farrar

  Truth, Believe, Men

  Frederic W. Farrar (2003). “History of Interpretation: Bampton Lectures, 1885”, p.16, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.

  Frederic Farrar

  Friendship, Errors, Faithful

  Frederic William Farrar (1868). “The Fall of Man, and Other Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge, Etc”, p.366

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• By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons! "Let it be counted folly," says Hooker, "or fury, or frenzy, or whatever else; it is our wisdom and our comfort. We care for no knowledge in the world but this, that man hath sinned, and that God hath suffered; that God has made Himself the Son of Man, and that men are made the righteousness of God."

  Frederic Farrar

  Friday, Son, Men

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• No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

  Frederic Farrar

  Men, Eternity

  Frederic William Farrar (1895). “Farrar Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rev. Frederic W. Farrar ...”

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• We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden--that is human sympathy.

  Frederic Farrar

  Sympathy, Men, Comfort

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• If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

  Frederic Farrar

  Laughing, Looks, Want

  Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.55

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• When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to the great white throne. For them Gethsemane is as paradise. God fills it with sacred presences; its solemn silence is broken by the music of tender promises, its awful darkness softened and brightened by the sunlight of Heavenly faces and the music of angel wings.

  Frederic Farrar

  Friday, Children, Lying

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• Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

  Frederic Farrar

  Men, Liberty, Neighbor

  Frederic William Farrar (1886). “Sermons and Addresses Delivered in America”

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• No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

  Frederic Farrar

  Lonely, Work, Men

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• If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.

  Frederic Farrar

  Miracle, Atheism, Untrustworthy

  Frederic William Farrar (1875). “The Witness of History to Christ: Five Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge : Being the Hulsean Lectures for the Year 1870”, p.25

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• By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!

  Frederic Farrar

  Friday, Son, Holy Days

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• There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

  Frederic Farrar

  Brother, Uncles, Names

  Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.74

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• Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places."

  Frederic Farrar

  Crush, Prayer, Fall

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• The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.

  Frederic Farrar

  Women, Addresses, Might

  Frederic William Farrar (1874). “The Life of Christ”, p.165

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• The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.

  Frederic Farrar

  Knowledge, Evil

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• And now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid the cause of truth and righteousness, and that He in whose name they are written may, of His mercy, "Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in His wisdom make me wise."

  Frederic Farrar

  Wise, Wisdom, Prayer

  Frederic William Farrar (1891). “The Sweet Story of Jesus: The Life of Christ”

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• For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

  Frederic Farrar

  Men, Gambling, Sin

  Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.76

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• The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

  Frederic Farrar

  Men, Islands, Judging

  Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.86

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• Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God had doomed this city to destruction as a polluted city, and was resolved to purge His sanctuary by fire, that He cut off these their great defenders and well-wishers; while those that a little before had worn the sacred garments and presided over the public worship, and had been esteemed venerable by those that dwelt in the whole habitable earth, were cast out naked, and seen to be the food of dogs and wild beasts."

  Frederic Farrar

  Dog, Cutting, Thinking

  Frederic William Farrar (1891). “The Sweet Story of Jesus: The Life of Christ”

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• The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ... "Remember it is better to be persecuted than to persecute." ... "Be not prone to anger." ... "He who giveth alms in secret is greater than Moses himself." ... "It is better to utter a short prayer with devotion than a long one without fervor." ... "He who having but one piece of bread in his basket, and says, What shall I eat tomorrow? is a man of little faith."

  Frederic Farrar

  Life, Prayer, Philosophy

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• Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

  Frederic Farrar

  School, Philosopher, Scholar

  Frederic William Farrar (1875). “Seekers After God”, p.32

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• But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

  Frederic Farrar

  Teacher, Real, School

  Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.36

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