John Campbell Shairp on Religion

“The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.”

“They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.”

“But now I think the belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.”