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.' (Farrar, The Life of Christ, p. 680.)
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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
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 easy to entangle the soul in a network of petty observances, difficult to yield the obedience of an enlightened heart easy to be haughtily exclusive, difficult to be humbly spiritual easy to be an ascetic or a formalist, difficult to be pure, and loving, and wise, and free easy to be a Pharisee, difficult to be a disciple very easy to embrace a self-satisfying and sanctimonious system of rabbinical observances, very difficult to love God with all the heart, and all the might, and all the soul, and all the strength.
Frederic William Farrar
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
No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.
Frederic William Farrar
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.'
Frederic William Farrar
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