Discourses on Human Nature, Human Life, and the Nature of ReligionC. S. Francis & Company, 1847 - 396 pages |
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... XXI . THE IDENTITY OF RELIGION WITH GOODNESS , AND WITH A GOOD LIFE , XXII . THE SAME SUBJECT , XXIII . THE SAME SUBJECT , XXIV . SPIRITUAL INTERESTS , REAL AND SUPREME , - 322 343 · 365 379 DISCOURSES . ON HUMAN NATURE . I. WHAT IS MAN.
... XXI . THE IDENTITY OF RELIGION WITH GOODNESS , AND WITH A GOOD LIFE , XXII . THE SAME SUBJECT , XXIII . THE SAME SUBJECT , XXIV . SPIRITUAL INTERESTS , REAL AND SUPREME , - 322 343 · 365 379 DISCOURSES . ON HUMAN NATURE . I. WHAT IS MAN.
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... interests which exists in society ; a competition which the selfishness of men makes to be far more than is necessary , and conceives to be far greater than it is . There is an erroneous idea , or imagination shall I call it — and ...
... interests which exists in society ; a competition which the selfishness of men makes to be far more than is necessary , and conceives to be far greater than it is . There is an erroneous idea , or imagination shall I call it — and ...
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... interests ensnare ; example corrupts . And yet no tyrant over men's thoughts , no unworthy seeker of their adulation , no pander for guilty pleasure , could ever make the human heart what he would . And in making it what he has , he has ...
... interests ensnare ; example corrupts . And yet no tyrant over men's thoughts , no unworthy seeker of their adulation , no pander for guilty pleasure , could ever make the human heart what he would . And in making it what he has , he has ...
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... interest , and you would be anxious to bring him into the light , and to rear him up to his proper sphere of honour . This , may I be permitted to say , illustrates the view which I take of human nature . I believe that there is ...
... interest , and you would be anxious to bring him into the light , and to rear him up to his proper sphere of honour . This , may I be permitted to say , illustrates the view which I take of human nature . I believe that there is ...
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... interest ; there are tears , to testify that it is a feeling . If , then , I put such a book into the hands of any reader , and if he feels thus , let him not tell me that there is nothing good in him . There may not be goodness , fixed ...
... interest ; there are tears , to testify that it is a feeling . If , then , I put such a book into the hands of any reader , and if he feels thus , let him not tell me that there is nothing good in him . There may not be goodness , fixed ...
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Page 314 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Page 89 - Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 85 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Page 123 - It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, ""Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 243 - Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever them wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
Page 261 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil ;
Page 158 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life ; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
Page 356 - ... how to be ; loving, in reverent thoughts of the good God, and in kind thoughts of all his children. It is plain, not easy, not in that sense natural; but natural in its accordance with all the loftiest sentiments of thy nature, easy in this, that nothing ever sat with such perfect peace and calm upon thy soul as that will. It is so plain, that he who runs, may read. It is the way in which fools need not err. "For what doth the Lord require of thee," saith the prophet, indignant at the complaint...
Page 99 - Life, which in this solitude, with the mind's organ, I could hear, was no longer a maddening discord, but a melting one ; like inarticulate cries, and sobbings of a dumb creature, which in the ear of Heaven are prayers.
Page 200 - One fatal remembrance — one sorrow that throws Its bleak shade alike o'er our joys and our woes To which Life nothing darker nor brighter can bring, For which joy hath no balm — and affliction no sting.