411 REFERENCE · Wikiquote
John Service (Scottish divine)
Reference material by Wikiquote contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
John Service (26 February 1833 – 15 March 1884) was a Scottish divine and author.
Quotes
It is easy for the fool, especially the learned and scientific fool, to prove that there is no God, but, like the murmuring sea, which heeds not the scream of wandering birds, the soul of humanity murmurs for God, and confutes the erudite folly of the fool by disregarding it.
Salvation Here and Hereafter: Sermons and Essays (London: Macmillan and Co, 1877) X. "Christianity and Ritual", p. 217. Quoted in James Orr, The Christian View of God and the World, 7th ed. (Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1904) Lecture III, p. 74
External links
Category:Novelists from Scotland
Category:Theologians from Scotland
Category:1833 births
Category:1884 deaths