#to

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away. ↗

— George A. Smith

#far #gives #god #himself #infallible

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself. ↗

— George A. Smith

#entrance #every #evil #freedom #god

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself. ↗

— George A. Smith

#cannot #christ #finds #god #himself

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#broken #commercial #disguised #effect #false

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#attempt #bear #cannot #every #god

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#never #occasion #peace #permanent #permanent peace

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#birth #doctrine #especially #evolution #given

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#ages #any #artist #fail #history

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#historian #humanity #like #look #must