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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
"God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive."
"Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies."
"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."
"When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything."
"Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God's will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God."
"Prayer is not an exercise it is the life."
"To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness."
"Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable."
"In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom."
"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
"We must go on, because we can't turn back."
"No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of it thinks it grand."
"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
"There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are."
"It had occurred to her many times that on board it didn't matter where you were coming from or where you were heading. Each voyage had its own charisma. Like writing a book " word by word " or crossing a country " step by step " each minute had to be lived moment by moment."
"Gaining heaven, being delivered from sin, and being made useful to God are things that should never even be a consideration in real surrender."
"Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous."
"So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
"You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will."
"Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice."
"For marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses."
"There are vast areas of stubbornness and ignorance the Holy Spirit has to reveal in each of us, but it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone...Jesus cannot teach us anything until we quiet all our intellectual questions and get alone with Him."
"If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask then He will give them but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself."
"What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him."
"If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise."
"The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God."
"His mother, who had never been able to manage him, sent him to school to get rid of him, lamented his absence till he returned, then writhed and fretted under his presence until again he went."
"God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace."
"The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being."
"You must suffer me to go my own dark way."
"The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil."
"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."
"Of a truth men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one."
"Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two great classes: those arts, like sculpture, painting, acting, which are representative, or as used to be said very clumsily, imitative; and those, like architecture, music, and the dance, which are self-sufficient, and merely presentative."
"I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde."
"The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks, and rubbing phosphorescences out of the walls, and blowing our own breath in our own nostrils, instead of issuing to the fair sunlight of God, the sweet winds of the universe."
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