Every-day ReligionTicknor, 1886 - 464 páginas |
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Página 69
... follow the immediate impulse of the Spirit , they present the curious anomaly of an outcome of the most rigid formalism . Truth in the letter at last seemed to harden and freeze , and to destroy truth in the spirit . This is the ...
... follow the immediate impulse of the Spirit , they present the curious anomaly of an outcome of the most rigid formalism . Truth in the letter at last seemed to harden and freeze , and to destroy truth in the spirit . This is the ...
Página 90
... follow him , and find themselves fed and strengthened and helped by his guidance . That is enough . We often overrate the power of intellect and un- derrate the power of character . When men speak , their character goes into their voice ...
... follow him , and find themselves fed and strengthened and helped by his guidance . That is enough . We often overrate the power of intellect and un- derrate the power of character . When men speak , their character goes into their voice ...
Página 97
... follows no fashion . He writes in his own way , not in that of any one else . In this sense , therefore , it is a duty to be unfashionable in literature . The good writer has a style of his own ; he does not flow with the stream ; he ...
... follows no fashion . He writes in his own way , not in that of any one else . In this sense , therefore , it is a duty to be unfashionable in literature . The good writer has a style of his own ; he does not flow with the stream ; he ...
Página 101
... follow him . Like all the great prophets of God , he stood alone and said , " I cannot do otherwise . God help me . Amen ! " - - Every truth is born at first in some lonely brain , in the mind of some solitary thinker , who loves truth ...
... follow him . Like all the great prophets of God , he stood alone and said , " I cannot do otherwise . God help me . Amen ! " - - Every truth is born at first in some lonely brain , in the mind of some solitary thinker , who loves truth ...
Página 107
... follow it . In unimportant matters it is best to do as other people do , and be fashionable.1 The best illustration of the difference between eccentricity and a true independence , is to be found in the conduct and character of Jesus ...
... follow it . In unimportant matters it is best to do as other people do , and be fashionable.1 The best illustration of the difference between eccentricity and a true independence , is to be found in the conduct and character of Jesus ...
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Página 369 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Página 49 - Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Página 361 - A lily of a day Is fairer far in May; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
Página 54 - STRAHAN, You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. — You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Look upon your Hands! They are stained with the Blood of your Relations! — You and I were long Friends: — You are now my Enemy, — and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Página 121 - O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul !' This was followed by a general laugh.
Página 145 - Woe be to them who call good evil, and evil good placing darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter...
Página 181 - ... deeds done in the body, whether they be good or whether they be evil...
Página 399 - They are like unto children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, "We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Página 101 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found. Among the faithless faithful only he : Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example with him wrought To 'swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single.
Página 133 - Take but degree away, untune that string. And hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or, rather, right and wrong, (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too.