Lectures to Young Men on the Formation of Character: Originally Addressed to the Young Men of Hartford and New Haven, and Published at Their Request, with Two Additional Lectures Not Before PublishedCongregational Board of Publication, 1856 - 240 pages |
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Page 168 - get wisdom: and remember that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do his commandments. All knowledge is worthless in comparison with this. To know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent: — this is true
Page 229 - We are journeying to a place of which the Lord hath said, I will give it you ; come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. Cast in your lot, my
Page 75 - judgment, the sentence of approval and peace.— Servant of God, 'well done ! well hast thou fought The better fight — — for this was all thy care, * To stand approved in sight of God, Though worlds judged thee perverse.
Page 197 - I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume, independent of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. The
Page 91 - character which, to use the language of another, " borrows splendor from all that is fair; subordinates to itself all that is great; and sits enthroned on the riches of the universe." Beholding this character, and living under this influence, we are changed from glory to glory,
Page vi - would be most delightful and useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for this makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly ones
Page 75 - fought The better fight — — for this was all thy care, * To stand approved in sight of God, Though worlds judged thee perverse. LECTURE IV. FORMATION AND IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTER. PROVERBS
Page 197 - When a friend took it in his hand, out of curiosity, to see what companion a man of letters had chosen ; — I have but one book, said he, but it is the best.
Page 183 - it is the peculiar triumph of that book to create light in the midst of darkness; to alleviate the sorrow which admits of no other alleviation ; to direct a beam of hope to the heart which no other topic of consolation can reach; while guilt, despair, and death
Page 134 - I think to be most for God's glory and my own good on the whole, without any consideration of the time, whether now or never so many myriads of ages hence.