Real Religion: Friendly Talks to the Average Man on Clean and Useful LivingPilgrim Press, 1910 - 184 páginas |
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... hears your key in the lock and gives an exultant shout when he feels your arms about him . The man who postpones the pleasure that he is to get out of his kinship and friendship to the time when he can sit down and take in fully and ...
... hears your key in the lock and gives an exultant shout when he feels your arms about him . The man who postpones the pleasure that he is to get out of his kinship and friendship to the time when he can sit down and take in fully and ...
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... good night to the youngsters perhaps two hundred miles away and has been listening to the voice of the woman whom he most loves to hear speak . Blessed be the long - distance telephone ! It has [ 55 ] THE DRUMMER'S SUNDAY.
... good night to the youngsters perhaps two hundred miles away and has been listening to the voice of the woman whom he most loves to hear speak . Blessed be the long - distance telephone ! It has [ 55 ] THE DRUMMER'S SUNDAY.
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... hear a group of traveling men in a hotel corridor talking , not politics or football , but telling each other what they thought about the Bible . Several were brave enough to declare their belief that it contained a vast amount of sound ...
... hear a group of traveling men in a hotel corridor talking , not politics or football , but telling each other what they thought about the Bible . Several were brave enough to declare their belief that it contained a vast amount of sound ...
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... hear the unvoiced complaint of the man who opens and shuts a gate all day long , the man who hands out tickets through a window , the man who delivers milk at the back door in the gray of the morning , the woman who stitches away on a ...
... hear the unvoiced complaint of the man who opens and shuts a gate all day long , the man who hands out tickets through a window , the man who delivers milk at the back door in the gray of the morning , the woman who stitches away on a ...
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... Who knows but we may hear something to our lasting advantage ? There are voices not of earth to which it pays us to turn a listening ear occasionally . There is no deafness so deplorable as that which prevents [ 113 ] THE GOOD LISTENER.
... Who knows but we may hear something to our lasting advantage ? There are voices not of earth to which it pays us to turn a listening ear occasionally . There is no deafness so deplorable as that which prevents [ 113 ] THE GOOD LISTENER.
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Página 17 - THE day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonoured, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
Página 75 - But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered" Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. " Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. " Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
Página 33 - And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses for ever in joy!
Página 149 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Página 50 - But often, in the world's most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us — to know Whence our lives come and where they go.
Página 169 - GRACE. SOME hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it ; But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thanket. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF PEG NICHOLSON. PEG Nicholson was a gude bay mare, As ever trode on airn ; But now she's floating down the Nith, An' past the mouth o
Página 13 - Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine ; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth...
Página 78 - Arnold goes to the pith of the problem, so far as duty-doing is concerned : "tasks in hours of insight willed Can be in hours of gloom fulfilled." And the same attitude is necessary in the life of prayer. Of course we cannot always pray with the same sense of God's nearness, the same warmth of conscious fellowship with him. Plotinus said that he had really prayed only four times in his life. Lowell, in his "Cathedral,
Página 122 - The dear Lord's best interpreters Are humble human souls ; The Gospel of a life like hers Is more than books or scrolls. From scheme and creed the light goes out, The saintly fact survives ; The blessed Master none can doubt .Revealed in holy lives.
Página 158 - Your moral most drearily true; But, since the earth clashed on her coffin, I keep hearing that, and not you.