James Anthony Froude
James Anthony Froude
James Anthony Froude FRSEwas an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his scandalous 1849 novel The Nemesis of Faith, drove him to abandon his religious career. Froude turned to writing history, becoming one of the best known historians of his time for his History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth23 April 1818
James Anthony Froude quotes about
Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.
Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship . From being the example of devotion, he is its object; the religion of Christ ended with his life , and left us instead but the Christian religion.
Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.
I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it.
Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.