Henry Norman Hudson quotes

“Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.”
-- Henry Norman Hudson

Source : Henry Norman Hudson (1848). “Lectures on Shakespeare”, p.118

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“Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses with the spiritualities of nature under her material forms; which tends to exalt even the senses into soul by discerning a soul in the objects of sense.”
-- Henry Norman Hudson

Source : Henry Norman Hudson (1848). “Lectures on Shakespeare”, p.122

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“Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.”
-- Henry Norman Hudson

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“The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason.”
-- Henry Norman Hudson

Source : Henry Norman Hudson (1848). “Lectures on Shakespeare”, p.220

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“Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.”

“William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.”

“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”

“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.”

“What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.”

“Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.”