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[I]t is quite certain that if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and carry them ou… - John Campbell Shairp
" "[I]t is quite certain that if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and carry them out into act, the power of conscience would be so strengthened and improved within them, that it would soon become, what it evidently is intended to be, "a connecting principle between the creature and the Creator."
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About John Campbell Shairp
John Campbell Shairp (July 30, 1819 – September 18, 1885) was a Scottish critic and man of letters.
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J. C. Shairp
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The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to obey that testimony which, I believe, God bears in every human heart, however dull, to those great truths which the Bible reveals. This, and not logic, is the way to grow in religious knowledge, to know that the truths of religion are not shadows, but deep realities.
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