Frederic Farrar Quotes

#1. But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

Frederic William Farrar

#2. 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.

Frederic Farrar

#3. 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.

Frederic Farrar

#4. If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

Frederic William Farrar

#5. 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.

Frederic Farrar

#6. 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.

Frederic Farrar

#7. The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost."

Frederic Farrar

#8. As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure.

Theodore L. Cuyler

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

Frederic William Farrar

#10. 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.

Frederic William Farrar

#11. Honor may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.

Ishida Mitsunari

#12. There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

Frederic William Farrar

#13. I guess just like relationships, friends can outgrow each other.

Sarah Colonna

#14. 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.

Frederic William Farrar

#15. It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

Steven Pressfield

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

Frederic William Farrar

#17. 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.

Frederic Farrar

#18. It's hard to tell the truth, and yet the truth is that she's the one who's rejected me.

Anne Frank

#19. The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.

Frederic Farrar

#20. What is courage?" I ask. "Bearing witness. That is a form of courage." (137)

Jessica Stern

#21. By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!

Frederic Farrar

#22. That was the end of the first part of Paris. Paris was never to be the same again although it was always Paris and you changed as it changed. We never went back to the Vorarlberg and neither did the rich.

Ernest Hemingway,

#23. I'm a real pawn-shopper.

Jemaine Clement

#24. It's easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Frederic Farrar

#26. Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

Frederic William Farrar

#27. If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts.

Frederic Farrar

#28. Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

Frederic William Farrar

#29. There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

Frederic William Farrar

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

Frederic Farrar

#31. They feared her [the dream beloved], knowing that, being impossible, she was irresistable, and that was why the king loved her best.

Salman Rushdie