John Lancaster Spalding Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Dare

“Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Philosophical #Phantoms #Steps

“We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Calamity #Disturbed

“Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Faith #Believe

“What we love to do we find time to do.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Time

“Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Mom #Mother #Feels

“If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Flower #Fate #Trouble

“If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Men #Degrees #Ancient

“When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#And Love #Approval

“Base thy life on principle, not on rules.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Principles

“Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Reform #World #Thyself

“The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Ignorance #Innocence #Virtue

“When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Bears #Witness

“He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#School #Caring #Knowing

“Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Littles #Given #Chiefs

“In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#And Love #Purpose #Compulsion

“If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Dull #Failing #Vain

“They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Children #Trifles

“If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Remember #Tire #Thee

“What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Thinking #Flow #Form

“It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Errors #Causes #Common

“Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Hero #Men #Saint

“The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Thoughtful #Mind #Doubt

“As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Memories #Paradise #May

“If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Men #Giving #Littles

“We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Masters

“Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Children #Passion #Men

“Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Athlete #Office #Battle

“The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Important

“The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.”
-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Vanity #Despair #Doctrine