(Heb.

11:4)

John Ker
Died
4th October 1886

 We should be broad enough to bear with the narrowness of others.

 A Religion of the intellect alone makes us feel everything

disputable; of the feelings, everything vague; of the conscience,
everything hard. Intellect gives form to feeling, feeling gives
warmth to conscience, and conscience gives basis to both.

 There are two ways of judging men as well as poets – their best by
their worst, or their worst by their best.

 There are two uses of a Church – to do good to those within it,

and, through them, to those without it; the best Church is that
which helps the most these two ends.

 Some men are fierce against a neighbour’s sin while they cherish a
sin of their own.

 No man is so ready for a quarrel with another as he who has a

quarrel with himself.
 It is much easier for a man to do harm in the world than good. A
fool’s hand can in a moment shatter a vase which it took the skill
and labour of years to finish.

 We should try to serve God with our best; but we should not wait
for what we reckon our best till we serve God.

 Man cannot unaided put evil out, or even limit it. That belongs to
God.

 A man must not seek happiness as his chief end, or he finds it

not.

 Building a character is like building a house – we cannot make it

broader than the foundation, though it is easy to make it
narrower. Yet we can build upward and make the most of the
ground we have. Here the danger lies in over-building till we
overbalance.

 Freedom rises in proportion to the character of the master who is

served. True freedom is the service of the Highest. To serve no
master is to serve self.

 One reason why Christianity has so little success in the world is,
because professing Christians subordinate it to so many other
considerations. It is compromised, and compromise is close to
surrender.

 Without the real no ideal, without the ideal no real. Christianity

gives both; Atheism, neither.

 The great want in modern life is that of conscience, and in modern

religion, of acknowledgement of the fact of sin.
 The higher a man rises above the brute, the greater his sympathy
will be with it. The nearer the brute the less pity for it.

 The Bible is like a transparent vase, seen to perfection only when

lighted up within by God’s Spirit.

 There is such a thing as ‘unconscious faith,’ but those who plead

it on their own behalf do not posses it. With them it is ‘conscious
unbelief.’

 After all, the great objection which infidelity has towards

Christianity is; the Christ of the Gospels. We may lighten the ship
of various superfluities to save it from wreck, but to cast Him
overboard is to make it not worth preserving.

 If we are to love anybody we must begin by loving somebody. This

is God’s plan. That of the philosophical philanthropist’s is, ‘Love
everybody,” which ends in loving nobody.

 Every person in this world, however humble, may have a place

which no one else can fill.

 When we use another’s light, we must not take his candlestick,

nor even his candle, except to kindle our own at it.

 Someone has said, “Nothing is nearer to every man than death.”

Let us be thankful we can interpose, “save God!”

‘Friend, remember that it is better to read 1 quote 10 times

(meditatively) than to read 10 quotes 1 time (superficially).’

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