Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys. James Anthony Froude More Quotes by James Anthony Froude More Quotes From James Anthony Froude The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe. James Anthony Froude energysoulmen I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements of humanity, she has brought beings into existence who have no business here; who can do none of her work, and endure none of her favours; whose life is only suffering; and whose action is one long protest against the ill foresight which flung them into consciousness. James Anthony Froude longchildrenthinking Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous. James Anthony Froude sagefoolselfish The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself. James Anthony Froude reflectioncloudslong Fear is the parent of cruelty. James Anthony Froude parentfearlife Mistakes are often the best teachers. James Anthony Froude best-teachermistaketeacher Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality. James Anthony Froude immortalitysoulself Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor left, but only forward, what earthly consequences may follow is not material. Persecution strengthens him; and so he is sure he is right, whether his course end in a prison or on a throne is no matter at all. But men of this calibre are uncommon in any age or in any country very uncommon in this age and this country. James Anthony Froude mencountryideas There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter. James Anthony Froude solitude Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society. James Anthony Froude offensecrimeprison To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. James Anthony Froude ethosmoralityfreedom Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it. James Anthony Froude agehandslooks We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it. James Anthony Froude nameshomegiving There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe. James Anthony Froude mentworeligion Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear. James Anthony Froude woemenchildren Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet? James Anthony Froude selflawmen That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now. James Anthony Froude serious-personimaginationheart Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting. James Anthony Froude eyeknowingheart Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives. James Anthony Froude charityhalfgiving Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God. James Anthony Froude sacrificereligionfirsts
