Thomas Guthrie Quotes


In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.


Citations

Guthrie, Thomas. The Gospel in Ezekiel. Adam and Charles Black, 1855, p. 10.

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Thomas Guthrie
Thomas Guthrie
  • Born: July 12, 1803
  • Died: February 24, 1873
  • Nationality: Scottish
  • Profession: Clergyman

Very Rev Thomas Guthrie FRSE DD was a Scottish divine and philanthropist, born at Brechin in Angus (at that time also called Forfarshire). He was one of the most popular preachers of his day in Scotland, and was associated with many forms of philanthropy—especially temperance and Ragged Schools, of which he was a founder.