George Croly Quote

At the foot of the cross, in all humility and in all adoration, we have learned at once the depth and the height of human nature; we have learned to think all wisdom but foolishness for the knowledge of Christ; all purity but sin, unwashed by His atonement; all hope in earth, of all hopes the most miserable, but in the faith of His most blessed resurrection; content to bear the struggles of life, at His command; and submitting to the grave, with a consciousness that it can sting no more.

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 172.

At the foot of the cross, in all humility and in all adoration, we have learned at once the depth and the height of human nature; we have learned to...

At the foot of the cross, in all humility and in all adoration, we have learned at once the depth and the height of human nature; we have learned to...

At the foot of the cross, in all humility and in all adoration, we have learned at once the depth and the height of human nature; we have learned to...

At the foot of the cross, in all humility and in all adoration, we have learned at once the depth and the height of human nature; we have learned to...