Robert Collyer quotes

“Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.”
-- Robert Collyer

Source : Robert Collyer (1867). “Nature and Life: Sermons”, p.4

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“God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.”
-- Robert Collyer

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“A man's best friends are his ten fingers.”
-- Robert Collyer

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“Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.”
-- Robert Collyer

Source : "Yesterday in the Pulpit". The New York Times, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 1882.

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“Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.”
-- Robert Collyer

Source : Robert Collyer (1871). “The life that now is, sermons”, p.303

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“The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June.”
-- Robert Collyer

Source : Robert Collyer (1877). “The Simple Truth: A Home Book”

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“Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.”

“The needs of the times will teach you what to do.”

“Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.”

“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Find out what my Individual Divine and Unique Power IS and offer it outwards in harmony with all life!”

“From discord, find Harmony.”

“God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.”

“I have read that the ancients, when they had produced a sound, used to modulate it, heightening and lowering its pitch without departing from the rules of harmony. So must the artist do in working at the nude.”

“When you walking along naturally, you're walking in the harmony of the Unborn.”

“False dichotomies are often at the heart of discord.”