Ten Sermons of ReligionCrosby, Nichols,, 1853 - 395 páginas |
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... This local coloring from time and circumstances I am not desirous to wipe off ; so the sad or joyous aspect of the day will be found still tinging these printed Sermons , as indeed it - - colored the faces and tinged the prayers of such as.
... This local coloring from time and circumstances I am not desirous to wipe off ; so the sad or joyous aspect of the day will be found still tinging these printed Sermons , as indeed it - - colored the faces and tinged the prayers of such as.
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Theodore Parker. colored the faces and tinged the prayers of such as heard them first . Sometimes the reader will find the same fundamental idea reappearing under various forms , in several places of this book ; and may perhaps also see ...
Theodore Parker. colored the faces and tinged the prayers of such as heard them first . Sometimes the reader will find the same fundamental idea reappearing under various forms , in several places of this book ; and may perhaps also see ...
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... prayer and toil . Not without great efforts are great heights won . In your period of passion you must subordinate in- stinctive desire to your reason , your conscience , your heart and soul ; the lust of the body to the spirit's love ...
... prayer and toil . Not without great efforts are great heights won . In your period of passion you must subordinate in- stinctive desire to your reason , your conscience , your heart and soul ; the lust of the body to the spirit's love ...
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... prayers . They form a family of the faith , and grow strong in their com- panionship . The circle grows wider . Men oppose the new idea , with little skill or much , sometimes with violence , or only with intellect . Then comes - - a ...
... prayers . They form a family of the faith , and grow strong in their com- panionship . The circle grows wider . Men oppose the new idea , with little skill or much , sometimes with violence , or only with intellect . Then comes - - a ...
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... prayers and in their daily toil strive after this , - their New Jerusalem . We all of us have this ideal ; our dream is fairer than our day ; we will not let it go . If the wicked prosper , it is but for a moment , say we ; the counsel ...
... prayers and in their daily toil strive after this , - their New Jerusalem . We all of us have this ideal ; our dream is fairer than our day ; we will not let it go . If the wicked prosper , it is but for a moment , say we ; the counsel ...
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action affections Aristotle artificial sacraments baptism beauty blessed body Catholic character child Christendom Christian Church comes common communion consciousness delight divine earth ecclesiastical England eternal faith Father fear feeling finite force genius give God's growth hate heart heaven Hebrew holy human nature idea ideal Infinite instinct intel intellectual irreligion Jesus Jesus of Nazareth justice ligion live logical condition look love of truth loveliness man's mankind manly matter means mind and conscience mode moral nation ness never outward Parthenon passion Pharisees philanthropy philosophy pietism piety political poor popular prayer priest pulpit religion religious faculty reverence saints sciousness sects seek self-denial self-love selfish sense sentiment sorrow soul spirit stone strength teach THEODORE PARKER theology thereof things Thomas à Kempis thought tion true trust universal William Law wisdom worship
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Página 375 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Página 307 - With this tranquillity of trust there comes a still, a peculiar and silent joy in God. You feel your delight in Him, and His in you. The man is not beside himself, he is self-possessed and cool. There is no esctasy, no fancied " being swallowed up in God ; " but there is a lasting inward sweetness and abiding joy.
Página 50 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken; The word by seers or sibyls told In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost.
Página 95 - ... wrongs. The miserable Highland drover, bankrupt, barefooted, stripped of all, dishonoured and hunted down, because the avarice of others grasped at more than that poor all could pay, shall burst on them in an awful change. They that scoffed at the grovelling worm and trode upon him may cry and howl when they see the stoop of the flying and fiery-mouthed dragon. But why do I speak of all this?
Página 83 - Age of fabled memory," only taking care that we do not, in striving to reach and ascend to the impossible ideal, neglect to seize upon and hold fast to the possible actual. To aim at the best, but be content with the best possible, is the only true wisdom. To insist on...
Página 365 - Would that Thou mightest stay with me, Or else that I might die While heart and soul are still subdued With Thy sweet mastery.
Página 236 - ... cometic career, he has sometimes hit the white, and often flung a boomerang. But his works abound in strong argument and in fine descriptions of historic events and scenes, from which we may take the following, in preference to a specimen of his Boanerges style : — " By means of his marshals he one day caught a Scotch girl, a covenanter. She was young, only eighteen. She was comely to look upon Her name was Margaret. Graham ordered her to be tied to a stake in the sea at low water, and left...
Página 79 - Yet the mass of men are always looking for the just; all this vast machinery which makes up a State, a world of States, is, on the part of the people, an attempt to organize justice; the minute and wideextending civil machinery which makes up the law and the courts, with all their officers and implements on the part of mankind, is chiefly an effort to reduce to practice the theory of right. Alas ! with the leaders of civil and political affairs it is quite different, often an organization of selfishness....