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... WRONG WHICH SIN DOES TO HUMAN NATURE , 41 ON THE ADAPTATION WHICH RELIGION , TO BE TRUE AND USEFUL , SHOULD HAVE TO HUMAN NATURE , 56 THE APPEAL OF RELIGION TO HUMAN NATURE , 71 THE CALL OF HUMANITY AND THE ANSWER TO IT , 88 HUMAN ...
... WRONG WHICH SIN DOES TO HUMAN NATURE , 41 ON THE ADAPTATION WHICH RELIGION , TO BE TRUE AND USEFUL , SHOULD HAVE TO HUMAN NATURE , 56 THE APPEAL OF RELIGION TO HUMAN NATURE , 71 THE CALL OF HUMANITY AND THE ANSWER TO IT , 88 HUMAN ...
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... wrong in our desiring the goods and advantages of life , provided the desire be kept within proper bounds . Suppose then that you are pursuing the same object with your neighbour , a situation , an office , for instance ; and suppose ...
... wrong in our desiring the goods and advantages of life , provided the desire be kept within proper bounds . Suppose then that you are pursuing the same object with your neighbour , a situation , an office , for instance ; and suppose ...
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... successes or acquisitions might have been your own ; you regret , and perhaps rightly , that they are not ; and then , you insensibly slide into the very wrong feeling of regret , that they belong to another . 2 * ON HUMAN NATURE . 17.
... successes or acquisitions might have been your own ; you regret , and perhaps rightly , that they are not ; and then , you insensibly slide into the very wrong feeling of regret , that they belong to another . 2 * ON HUMAN NATURE . 17.
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... qualities . No , it has dread attendants ; attendants , I had almost said , that dignify even the wrong . A waiting conscience , visitings - Oh ! visit ings of better thoughts , calls of honour and self ON HUMAN NATURE . 23.
... qualities . No , it has dread attendants ; attendants , I had almost said , that dignify even the wrong . A waiting conscience , visitings - Oh ! visit ings of better thoughts , calls of honour and self ON HUMAN NATURE . 23.
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... wrong im- plies a noble power , the very power which constitutes the glory of heaven ; the power to do right . And thus it is , as I apprehend , that the inspired Teachers speak of the wickedness and unworthiness of man . They seem to ...
... wrong im- plies a noble power , the very power which constitutes the glory of heaven ; the power to do right . And thus it is , as I apprehend , that the inspired Teachers speak of the wickedness and unworthiness of man . They seem to ...
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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 306 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Page 277 - I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander, darkling, in the eternal space, Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Page 123 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: 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...
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 244 - Jesus, Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever Thou 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 263 - But he turned, and said unto Peter, 'Get thee behind me, Satan. Thou art an offence unto me, for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
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 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.