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... moral or right . Had God therefore only created creatures of this description , He would , it is true , have prevented the possibility of evil ; but He would at the same time also have pre- vented the possibility of good . - 2d ...
... moral or right . Had God therefore only created creatures of this description , He would , it is true , have prevented the possibility of evil ; but He would at the same time also have pre- vented the possibility of good . - 2d ...
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... moral sphere , it can only be through the medium of temptation . You should rather wish for them moral conflict , -conflict no matter how fierce and how long protracted , no matter though it call for resistance " even unto blood , " so ...
... moral sphere , it can only be through the medium of temptation . You should rather wish for them moral conflict , -conflict no matter how fierce and how long protracted , no matter though it call for resistance " even unto blood , " so ...
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... moral development of every finite being . Even Christ , divine though He was , had to be made " perfect through suffer- ing " ; and much of this suffering was due , we may be sure , to the discipline of temptation . There is a glory ...
... moral development of every finite being . Even Christ , divine though He was , had to be made " perfect through suffer- ing " ; and much of this suffering was due , we may be sure , to the discipline of temptation . There is a glory ...
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... moral action , and a moral agent must be free . A forced goodness is a contradiction in terms . There is no difference in moral value between constrained obedience and free disobedience . If God used a man's will for him , or prevented ...
... moral action , and a moral agent must be free . A forced goodness is a contradiction in terms . There is no difference in moral value between constrained obedience and free disobedience . If God used a man's will for him , or prevented ...
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... moral value in his refraining . Hence compelling him to refrain from evil is not , after all , compelling him to be vir- tuous . A virtuous character cannot be bestowed upon any one by a creative fiat from without . It must be the ...
... moral value in his refraining . Hence compelling him to refrain from evil is not , after all , compelling him to be vir- tuous . A virtuous character cannot be bestowed upon any one by a creative fiat from without . It must be the ...
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Page 131 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them ? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Page 150 - How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray.
Page 291 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 200 - Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name ? and in thy name have cast out devils ? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 168 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity it profiteth me nothing.
Page 159 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 58 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
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Page 315 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
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