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... actions and dispositions which stir you to loathing and contempt ; and that , on the other hand , there are those which you reverence with the whole force of your personality as the highest and noblest that you have ever conceived . And ...
... actions and dispositions which stir you to loathing and contempt ; and that , on the other hand , there are those which you reverence with the whole force of your personality as the highest and noblest that you have ever conceived . And ...
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... actions and their results in history , whether of nations or of individuals , our knowledge of His methods is extended . We cannot speak of the knowledge of God which has come to men through social experience , and through history ...
... actions and their results in history , whether of nations or of individuals , our knowledge of His methods is extended . We cannot speak of the knowledge of God which has come to men through social experience , and through history ...
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... action revealed a love which was stronger than sin , and stronger than death . We cannot expect , and we do not need , teaching about the moral nature of God that goes higher than that ; we are content henceforth to say that God is Love ...
... action revealed a love which was stronger than sin , and stronger than death . We cannot expect , and we do not need , teaching about the moral nature of God that goes higher than that ; we are content henceforth to say that God is Love ...
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... action . There are men , strange as it may seem , who recite the words " Father is God , the Son is God , and the Holy Ghost is God ; and yet they are not three Gods , but one God , " and then proceed to urge upon the faithful that they ...
... action . There are men , strange as it may seem , who recite the words " Father is God , the Son is God , and the Holy Ghost is God ; and yet they are not three Gods , but one God , " and then proceed to urge upon the faithful that they ...
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... action has thwarted - not accomplished - the divine will . Of course it is true that her changed circum- stances do give her the chance of showing courage and self - reliance ; of course it is possible - just pos- sible that they may ...
... action has thwarted - not accomplished - the divine will . Of course it is true that her changed circum- stances do give her the chance of showing courage and self - reliance ; of course it is possible - just pos- sible that they may ...
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Page 97 - IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain: Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake...
Page 22 - So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God; and yet they are not three Gods but one God...
Page 92 - Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Page 66 - I report, as a man may of God's work — all's love, yet all's law. Now I lay down the judgeship he lent me. Each faculty tasked To perceive him, has gained an abyss, where a dewdrop was asked.
Page 34 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 5 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 121 - Drop yon. blue bosom-veil of sky, and show me The breasts o' her tenderness: Never did any milk of hers once bless My thirsting mouth. Nigh and nigh draws the chase, With unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed majestic instancy And past those Noise'd Feet A voice comes yet more fleet — "Lo! naught contents thee, who content'st not Me.
Page 34 - For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 40 - Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Page 68 - Though dark my path and sad my lot, Let me be still, and murmur not, Or breathe the prayer divinely taught, "Thy will be done.