Every-day ReligionTicknor, 1886 - 464 páginas |
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... wish to create a child who could . plunge himself into such irreparable ruin ? Many a man is called an atheist whose utterances are less irreligious than this . If any one said of you that you had constructed a furnace into which to put ...
... wish to create a child who could . plunge himself into such irreparable ruin ? Many a man is called an atheist whose utterances are less irreligious than this . If any one said of you that you had constructed a furnace into which to put ...
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... wish to know how God will feel and act , how he will regard any act of yours , you must ask , How would a good and wise father feel or act in like circumstances ? Thus true family life is everywhere the germ out of which the higher life ...
... wish to know how God will feel and act , how he will regard any act of yours , you must ask , How would a good and wise father feel or act in like circumstances ? Thus true family life is everywhere the germ out of which the higher life ...
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... wishes . It rests on an immutable , unchangeable law of human nature planted in the soul by the Creator . It is more convincing than any argument , more reasonable than the most subtle logic . It says , " O death , where is thy sting ...
... wishes . It rests on an immutable , unchangeable law of human nature planted in the soul by the Creator . It is more convincing than any argument , more reasonable than the most subtle logic . It says , " O death , where is thy sting ...
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... wishes us to trust in him always , and to pour out our souls before him . These , then , are the unchanging , unalterable facts of Christianity . Faith is the foundation : faith in God as an infinite Friend ; faith in Christ as RELIGION ...
... wishes us to trust in him always , and to pour out our souls before him . These , then , are the unchanging , unalterable facts of Christianity . Faith is the foundation : faith in God as an infinite Friend ; faith in Christ as RELIGION ...
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... wish to know them ? The world is sick because of shams , pretences , empty shows , forms which have nothing left in them but dead habit . Every age needs its prophets to rouse it from its deadly sleep in some dear , delightful falsehood ...
... wish to know them ? The world is sick because of shams , pretences , empty shows , forms which have nothing left in them but dead habit . Every age needs its prophets to rouse it from its deadly sleep in some dear , delightful falsehood ...
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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.