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Frederick Denison Maurice Quotes

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.

Frederick Denison Maurice
Memories, Prayer, Heart
Frederick Denison Maurice (1849). “The Lord's Prayer: Nine Sermons Preached in the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn in the Months of February, March, and April”, p.1

Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of me, I cannot tell you how dreadfully and how long. . . . This, I find has more hindered my progress in love and gentleness than all things else. I never knew what the words, "Judge not that ye be not judged," meant before; now they seem to me some of the most awful, necessary, and beautiful in the whole Word of God.

Frederick Denison Maurice
Love, Beautiful, Believe

The Light of the world is not put out. Now have death and the grave been converted into the great testimonies for life and immortality. Now may each man, who has the sentence of Adam upon him, know that he is a kinsman of the Son of God. Now may he follow Him; and so, when the darkness is thickest around him and within, not walk in it, but see the Light of Life.

Frederick Denison Maurice
Son, Men, Light

We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children.

Frederick Denison Maurice
Children, Cease
Frederick Denison Maurice (1843). “The Kingdom of Christ: Or, Hints Respecting the Principles, Constitution, and Ordinances of the Catholic Church”, p.266

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