The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works. Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine More Quotes by Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine More Quotes From Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine independencejusticeintegrity To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a. rock and another in the quicksands. Christ will either be to us all in all in point of righteousness, or else nothing at all. Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine rocksfeetchrist The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason. Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine mediawritingmen It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature. Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine atmospherefeelingsbible Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves. Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine carejusticelooks When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer. Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine situations-in-lifesacrificeprayer
