They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.
John Campbell ShairpThe belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.
John Campbell ShairpNot as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .
John Campbell ShairpThat image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.
John Campbell Shairp