Horace Mann Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Thinking, Christ

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.199

• The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.

  Horace Mann

  Teaching, Training, Example

  Horace Mann (1857). “Demands of the Age on Colleges”, p.46

• Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

  Horace Mann

  Jesus, Book, Cities

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.192

• The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.

  Horace Mann

  Jesus, Real, Character

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.221

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