We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest conviction. But we are called on to t… - John Campbell Shairp
" "We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest conviction. But we are called on to trust—to trust ourselves to God, being sure that He will lead us right—to keep close to Him—and to trust the promises which He whispers through our conscience; this we can do, and we ought to do.
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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 sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.
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