Brooke Westcott quotes
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“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.”
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“There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.”
-- Brooke WestcottSource : Brooke Foss Westcott (1867). “The Gospel of the Resurrection: Thoughts on Its Relation to Reason and History”, p.133
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“The character of a generation is moulded by personal character.”
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“Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view of the universe. By faith we are convinced that our impressions of things without are not dreams or delusions, but, for us, true representations of our environment. By faith we are convinced that the signs of permanence, order, progress, which we observe in nature are true. By faith we are convinced that fellowship is possible with our fellow man and with God.”
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“What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love.”
-- Brooke WestcottSource : Brooke Foss Westcott (1887). “Social Aspects of Christianity”
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“Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.”
-- Brooke WestcottSource : "The Gospel of the Resurrection: Thoughts on Its Relation to Reason and History".
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“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.”
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“The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.”
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