Nothing is further from Earth than Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth.

Julius Hare
British theologian (1795-1855)
9 pieces
- Lived
- 1795–1855
- Known as
- writer, translator
- Era
- 19th century
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Works (9)
The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.
Be what you are. This is the first step towards becoming better than you are.
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
The only way of setting the Will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.
A Faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none. It is only Doubt taking a nap in an elbow chair. The husband, whose scepticism is prurient enough to contemplate …
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
If then I am addressing one of that numerous class, who read to be told what to think, let me advise you to meddle with the book no further. You wish to buy a house ready furnished: do not come to look for it in a stonequarry. But if you …