Most people would succeed above themselves. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley More Quotes by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley More Quotes From Arthur Penrhyn Stanley High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley eight white bible Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley recovery perfection evil The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley vexation eternity world In the true, original, catholic, evangelical religion of Jesus Christ, and in this alone, all the divided religions of Christendom find their union, their repose, their support. Find out His mind, His character, His will; and in His greatness we shall rise above our littleness; in His strength we shall lose our weakness; in His peace we shall forget our discord. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley greatness character jesus Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley compass jewels age I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley advocating scenery strange That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions and other races, and have had enkindled afresh within us the instinct of a common humanity, and of the universal beneficence of the Creator. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley common-humanity race country Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human' infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley passion broken hands
