Robert South was an English clergyman as well as theologian who functioned as the prebendary of Westminster Abbey as well as an imperial pastor to King Charles II.
South was born in Hackney, London, in 1634, and was the oldest kid of a seller. He went to St. Paul's School in London, and in 1651 he entered Christ Church, Oxford. He received his B.A. in 1655 and also his M.A. in 1658. He was blessed a deacon in 1659 as well as a clergyman in 1660.
In 1663, South became a prebendary of Westminster Abbey, where he gained a reputation as an effective and also significant preacher. He was additionally designated an imperial pastor to King Charles II in 1664. South's preachings were extremely prominent as well as drew large crowds, however they also attracted dispute. He was known for his assaults on skeptics and also his assistance for the royalist cause, which made him a target of Whig political leaders.
In 1678, South was appointed a canon of Christ Church, Oxford, where he remained to teach and instruct. He likewise published several doctrinal works, including "Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock's Book, intituled A Vindication of the Holy and also Ever Blessed Trinity" (1693) and "Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions" (1717). South's theological views were debatable, and he was slammed for his opposition to spiritual toleration and his assistance for the Anglican Church.
South relinquished his placements at Westminster Abbey and Christ Church in 1716 as a result of failing health, as well as he passed away later on that year. He was remembered as one of the best preachers of his time and also his sermons were highly related to for their eloquence as well as power.
Our collection contains 17 quotes who is written / told by Robert.
"Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together"
"Novelty is the great parent of pleasure"
"Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart"
"The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words"
"God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress"
"Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it"
"God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again"
"Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason"
"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation"
"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus"
"It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination"
"Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure"
"Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities"
"An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise"
"The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible"
"Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it"
"Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument"
