Ethical Christianity: A Series of SermonsE.P. Dutton, 1892 - 176 pages |
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... spirit may reproduce in you the Christ - like " extra " -that disinterested , absolute , self- sacrificing , suffering , all - embracing love , which is the highest attribute of God , and the distinctive mark of the Christianity of ...
... spirit may reproduce in you the Christ - like " extra " -that disinterested , absolute , self- sacrificing , suffering , all - embracing love , which is the highest attribute of God , and the distinctive mark of the Christianity of ...
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... spirit giveth life . " Law is necessarily expressed in general terms and in human speech . General terms never exactly suit every particular case , and human language has its inevitable limitations . Hence the old judicial proverb that ...
... spirit giveth life . " Law is necessarily expressed in general terms and in human speech . General terms never exactly suit every particular case , and human language has its inevitable limitations . Hence the old judicial proverb that ...
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... spirit of the New Testament than an attempt to justify the use of alcoholic liquors because , forsooth , it is possible that Christ drank intoxicating wine at the marriage feast in Cana ! What , in the name of common sense , to say ...
... spirit of the New Testament than an attempt to justify the use of alcoholic liquors because , forsooth , it is possible that Christ drank intoxicating wine at the marriage feast in Cana ! What , in the name of common sense , to say ...
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... spirit ; he has lost the filial attitude , and may well talk about " serving . " For a servant he is , and no longer a son . It is to be feared that a great part of Christendom is still at the inferior Jewish level . We are too apt to ...
... spirit ; he has lost the filial attitude , and may well talk about " serving . " For a servant he is , and no longer a son . It is to be feared that a great part of Christendom is still at the inferior Jewish level . We are too apt to ...
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... spirit of Jesus Christ as it is fatal to the well - being of mankind . We can never be said to do the Will of our Father on earth as angels do it in heaven , if we do that Will only at certain times and in certain places . Ruskin is ...
... spirit of Jesus Christ as it is fatal to the well - being of mankind . We can never be said to do the Will of our Father on earth as angels do it in heaven , if we do that Will only at certain times and in certain places . Ruskin is ...
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Page 52 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Page x - When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
Page 34 - For, don't you mark? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
Page 17 - A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe, on Rivers and Lakes of Europe.
Page 164 - Long my imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night ; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray, I woke, the dungeon flamed with light ; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed thee.
Page 69 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 53 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 18 - What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the earth? — Most men eddy about Here and there — eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are...
Page 130 - And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ : for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Page 96 - And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation concerning the two brethren. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister; and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom...