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  • That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who did so die was the Christ the Son of God is entirely a matter of revelation.

    Robert Anderson (1876). “The gospel and its ministry”, p.135
  • Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be punished and brought back, but this necessity breaks my heart.

  • I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.

  • A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

  • Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

  • In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

  • The mission of the playwright ... is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

  • Death ends a life, it does not end a relationship.

  • All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.

    Tea and Sympathy, act 1 (1953)
  • The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.

    Robert Anderson (2007). “The Silence of God”, p.73, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find.

  • I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.

  • There's another way to edit the sentence, which is to add a comma before the second 'which.' The survivor is struggling toward 'some resolution,' not a specific resolution that the mind may never find. The final clause is an appended thought, not a conclusion of the previous clause: 'Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution, which it may never find.'

  • We reach the point where our profession is also our hobby.

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Robert Anderson

  • Born: June 14, 1805
  • Died: October 26, 1871
  • Occupation: Military Commander