Moral Leadership and the MinistryHorace Worth Company, 1912 - 200 pages |
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... - ance , and though it has surpassing reasons and motives , it may be pressed hard to hold first place , to fail in holding which would be its undoing . That the minister should bring to his [ 36 ] Moral Leadership and the Ministry.
... - ance , and though it has surpassing reasons and motives , it may be pressed hard to hold first place , to fail in holding which would be its undoing . That the minister should bring to his [ 36 ] Moral Leadership and the Ministry.
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... motives — is the danger , and it thus fail to appeal to the vigor and valor of manhood ; lack of which single - mindedness — though a hundred creeds be held - would be fatal unbelief . Given the endurance of the soldier , so great and ...
... motives — is the danger , and it thus fail to appeal to the vigor and valor of manhood ; lack of which single - mindedness — though a hundred creeds be held - would be fatal unbelief . Given the endurance of the soldier , so great and ...
Page 38
... motives and grounds are found to sustain them . But what if with all its truth and sanctions and enthronements of righteous- ness in God , less than the same spirit rule in the Church ! What if the minister bring to his calling and to ...
... motives and grounds are found to sustain them . But what if with all its truth and sanctions and enthronements of righteous- ness in God , less than the same spirit rule in the Church ! What if the minister bring to his calling and to ...
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... motives , these other men courted death the victims of some merciless enthu- siasm . So long as they did it , Christ was dethroned , had the apostles come short of the same daring . As we know , the apostles did not fail , but for purer ...
... motives , these other men courted death the victims of some merciless enthu- siasm . So long as they did it , Christ was dethroned , had the apostles come short of the same daring . As we know , the apostles did not fail , but for purer ...
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... motives and warrants for sacrifice . These others can have no Master like unto mine , whose glory of service lays upon me constraining charm . They know not as I how vain and weak are things , nor have felt as I the glory of love ...
... motives and warrants for sacrifice . These others can have no Master like unto mine , whose glory of service lays upon me constraining charm . They know not as I how vain and weak are things , nor have felt as I the glory of love ...
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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.