Robert Dabney Quotes

• There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the teacher in the school-room is either moral or it is a degrading force. But he can show the child no other moral basis for it than the Bible. Hence my argument is as perfect as clear. The teacher must be Christian. But the American Commonwealth has promised to have no religious character. Then it cannot be teacher.

  Robert Dabney

  Christian, Education, Teacher

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• Predigo que llegará el momento en esta América antaño libre en que la batalla por la libertad religiosa tendrá que librarse de nuevo, y probablemente se perderá, porque la gente ya ignora sus verdaderas bases y condiciones.

  Robert Dabney

  Christian, Religious, America

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• It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and Platoís heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.

  Robert Dabney

  Education, Children, Plato

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• Every line of true knowledge must find its completeness as it converges on God, just as every beam of daylight leads the eye to the sun. If religion is excluded from our study, every process of thought will be arrested before it reaches its proper goal. The structure of thought must remain a truncated cone, with its proper apex lacking.

  Robert Dabney

  Eye, Goal, Daylight

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• I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of my God for their God. He has been my father's God, and the God of your Mother's predecessors. I solemnly charge you to make it your first care to seek after peace with God, and being reconciled, to make it your study to please God in all things.

  Robert Dabney

  Mother, Father, War

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• Como institución moral y social, el descanso semanal tiene un valor incalculable. Es una tranquila reunión doméstica para los bulliciosos hijos del trabajo. Asegura las vacaciones necesarias en esas ansiedades y afectos terrenales y turbulentos, que de otro modo se volverían desmesurados y mórbidos. Trae consigo una estación de limpieza y decencia periódicas, cuando la tierra del trabajo semanal se deja a un lado, y los hombres se encuentran entre sí en medio de la decencia del santuario, y renuevan sus afectos sociales. Pero, sobre todo, el sábado (un día de descanso de cada siete) es necesario para los intereses morales y religiosos del hombre.

  Robert Dabney

  Religious, War, Son

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• The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable or unfavorable about the beliefs of evangelical Christians, Catholics, Socinians, Deists, pantheists, materialists, or fetish worshipers, who all claim equal rights under American institutions? His teaching will indeed be "the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet omitted."

  Robert Dabney

  Christian, Teaching, Law

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