Ethical ReligionWatts & Company, 1905 - 128 pàgines |
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Pàgina 77 - For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the Voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with him be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord
Pàgina 31 - Hath man no second life? Pitch this one high ! Sits there no judge in heaven our sin to see ? More strictly, then, the inward judge obey ! Was Christ a man like us ? Ah I let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he !
Pàgina 67 - Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me ! " 'Twas so when Jesus called for a deeper righteousness than even the most religious of his
Pàgina 18 - identity between morals and religion. 1 I scarcely know what true thought of mine the reader will not find, stripped of its imperfections of statement, in him. It was he who long ago spoke of the consolation, the hope, the grandeur that come alone out of the culture of the moral nature.
Pàgina 120 - just and pure living; a place in which those who are weary of the burden of daily cares should find a moment's rest in the contemplation of the higher life, which is possible for all, though attained by so few ; a place in which the man of strife and business should have time to
Pàgina 87 - with the belief that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt,and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive.
Pàgina 17 - Yes, more truly than the law of gravitation does it belong there. I can see no necessity in the law of gravitation; I can conceive that there might be a different law than this according to which bodies attract one another directly as their mass and inversely as the square of their distance from one another.
Pàgina 71 - That best portion of a good man's life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
Pàgina 52 - neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me; therefore I took them away as I saw good.
Pàgina 122 - strenuous for the bright reward, Still in the soul to admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness, Great is the glory, for the strife is hard.