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Frederic Farrar

Frederic William Farrar (Bombay, 7 August 1831 – Canterbury, 22 March 1903) was a cleric of the Church of England (Anglican), schoolteacher and author. He was a pallbearer at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles secret society.

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Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.

Although, Errors, Faithful, Friend, Friendship

The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost. ". . . "Remember it is better to be persecuted than to persecute. ". . . "Be not prone to anger. ". . . "He who giveth alms in secret is greater than Moses himself. ". . . "It is better to utter a short prayer with devotion than a long one without fervor. ". . . "He who having but one piece of bread in his basket, and says, What shall I eat tomorrow? is a man of little faith. "

Faith, Life, Moses, Philosophy, Prayer, Short

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

Ends, Liberty, Men, Neighbor, Ought

And now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid the cause of truth and righteousness, and that He in whose name they are written may, of His mercy, "Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in His wisdom make me wise. "

Forth, Prayer, Truth, Wisdom, Wise

It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a capitation tax, if this enrolment also involved taxation. But, apart from any legal necessity, it may easily be imagined that at such a moment Mary would desire not to be left alone. The cruel suspicion of which she had been the subject, and which had almost led to the breaking off of her betrothal (Matt. 1: 19) would make her cling all the more to the protection of her husband.

Capitation, Desire, Husband, Imagination, Journey, Suspicion

When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to the great white throne. For them Gethsemane is as paradise. God fills it with sacred presences; its solemn silence is broken by the music of tender promises, its awful darkness softened and brightened by the sunlight of Heavenly faces and the music of angel wings.

Broken, Children, Friday, Lying, Pass, Under

We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden--that is human sympathy.

Comfort, Good, Health, Influence, Men, Sympathy

Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God had doomed this city to destruction as a polluted city, and was resolved to purge His sanctuary by fire, that He cut off these their great defenders and well-wishers; while those that a little before had worn the sacred garments and presided over the public worship, and had been esteemed venerable by those that dwelt in the whole habitable earth, were cast out naked, and seen to be the food of dogs and wild beasts. "

Beasts, Cutting, Dog, Esteemed, Garments, Thinking

If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.

Atheism, False, Miracle, Miracles, Untrustworthy

The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.

Addresses, Might, Queenliest, Respectful, Woman, Women

The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.

Commission, Evil, Knowledge, Tempteth

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

City, Lonely, Men, Word, Work, World

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Already, Eternity, Man, Men, Pass

Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places. "

Christ, Crush, Fall, Jerusalem, Prayer, Under

Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves.

Favorite, God, Honesty, Kindness, Self

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

Corsica, Island, Islands, Judges, Judging, Men

It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

Difficult, Letter, Number, Numbers, Self, Soul

A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

Believe, Heresy, Heretic, Man, Men, Truth

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

Claudius, Considered, Gambling, Men, Sin