Moral Leadership and the MinistryHorace Worth Company, 1912 - 200 pages |
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... ship onward ; the voyager but directs the course . Man is blocked and hindered ; he is overturned and overturned . He cannot escape death , he cannot explain life . He is in other hands . Time and [ 7 ] Religion and Leadership.
... ship onward ; the voyager but directs the course . Man is blocked and hindered ; he is overturned and overturned . He cannot escape death , he cannot explain life . He is in other hands . Time and [ 7 ] Religion and Leadership.
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... death , changes the character of a people , and gives his companions the feeling that by his very fearlessness and trust , he is following a stronger làw than calculating prudence , and has the vast resource of God behind him . He has ...
... death , changes the character of a people , and gives his companions the feeling that by his very fearlessness and trust , he is following a stronger làw than calculating prudence , and has the vast resource of God behind him . He has ...
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... prudence or the gaining of things is not life at all . If it were only that one fears not death nor pain , nor what man can do , nor the storms man of that beat against the house of one's life [ 17 ] Religion and Leadership.
... prudence or the gaining of things is not life at all . If it were only that one fears not death nor pain , nor what man can do , nor the storms man of that beat against the house of one's life [ 17 ] Religion and Leadership.
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... deaths , were the best arguments of the infant Church . Their enemies themselves not infrequently acknowledged it . " Idem , p . 414 . trolling fact in the evolution of society is religious . [ 21 ] Religion and Leadership.
... deaths , were the best arguments of the infant Church . Their enemies themselves not infrequently acknowledged it . " Idem , p . 414 . trolling fact in the evolution of society is religious . [ 21 ] Religion and Leadership.
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... death nor pov- erty nor what man can do , for the glory of righteousness this is the aim , and ample for this is the power , of the Gospel . The Life expresses itself in manifold ways accord- ing to occasion , but the essence is such a ...
... death nor pov- erty nor what man can do , for the glory of righteousness this is the aim , and ample for this is the power , of the Gospel . The Life expresses itself in manifold ways accord- ing to occasion , but the essence is such a ...
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Page 35 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to Angels, and to men.
Page 35 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace ; and labour, working with our own hands...
Page 17 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 21 - Their enemies themselves not unfrequently acknowledged it. The love shown by the early Christians to their suffering brethren has never been more emphatically attested than by...
Page 21 - Never before was a religious transformation so manifestly inevitable. No other religion ever combined so many forms of attraction as Christianity, both from its intrinsic excellence, and from its manifest adaptation to the special wants of the time.
Page 117 - The water that I shall give you, shall be in you a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Page 170 - government of the people, for the people and by the people, should not perish from the earth.
Page 35 - To the present hour we both hunger and thirst and we are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless. And we labor working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted we endure; being defamed we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the off scouring of all things until now.
Page 129 - The willing department of our nature. . .dominates both the conceiving department and the feeling department; or, in plainer English, perception and thinking are only there for behavior's sake. I am sure I am not wrong in stating this result as one of the fundamental conclusions to which the entire drift of modern physiological investigation sweeps us.
Page 5 - ... how to labor together with God instead of becoming a cog in some great machine ; how to maintain peace of mind amid the disasters, illusions, and tragedies of experience, — this is the cry for power which goes up from many a life, ensnared — as whose is not ? — in the mechanism and materialism of the world.