The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.
John Campbell ShairpFor with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?
John Campbell ShairpBeauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.
John Campbell ShairpCriticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the child's heart, that most truly discerns the countenance that looks out from the pages of the gospel.
John Campbell Shairp