Robert Collyer quotes
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“Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.”
-- Robert CollyerSource : 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.”
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“A man's best friends are his ten fingers.”
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“Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.”
-- Robert CollyerSource : "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 CollyerSource : 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 CollyerSource : Robert Collyer (1877). “The Simple Truth: A Home Book”
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