Moral Leadership and the MinistryHorace Worth Company, 1912 - 200 pages |
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... faith in God . Eternal life is the gift of God . Take God out of the Bible and it becomes as any other book ; lose the fact of God and there is no gospel . The subject of the Bible is not man ; the heart of the Gospel is not man . The ...
... faith in God . Eternal life is the gift of God . Take God out of the Bible and it becomes as any other book ; lose the fact of God and there is no gospel . The subject of the Bible is not man ; the heart of the Gospel is not man . The ...
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... will to be superior , and the faith opens into the life . To obey and follow Christ is for the husbandman to enter into alliance with the sun and the soil and the rain and the spirit [ 8 ] Moral Leadership and the Ministry.
... will to be superior , and the faith opens into the life . To obey and follow Christ is for the husbandman to enter into alliance with the sun and the soil and the rain and the spirit [ 8 ] Moral Leadership and the Ministry.
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... , - living by a faith that , to other men , was raging foolishness , but won , because the unseen is eternal and the soul of the universe . From their prisons and their crosses , out of their [ 9 ] Religion and Leadership.
... , - living by a faith that , to other men , was raging foolishness , but won , because the unseen is eternal and the soul of the universe . From their prisons and their crosses , out of their [ 9 ] Religion and Leadership.
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... faith , the higher king- dom , the spirit of service , the points of moral leadership . When the father of a friend of mine died some fifteen years ago , he left , to the surprise of his family , a sub- stantial indebtedness , and the ...
... faith , the higher king- dom , the spirit of service , the points of moral leadership . When the father of a friend of mine died some fifteen years ago , he left , to the surprise of his family , a sub- stantial indebtedness , and the ...
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... faith in the other . To these two , all things are possible . Faith is the acting in view of this gravity to the finding how mighty is the push and pull of love . This regenerating power is equal to the task of making over the loves and ...
... faith in the other . To these two , all things are possible . Faith is the acting in view of this gravity to the finding how mighty is the push and pull of love . This regenerating power is equal to the task of making over the loves and ...
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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.