Real Religion: Friendly Talks to the Average Man on Clean and Useful LivingPilgrim Press, 1910 - 184 páginas |
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... possible savory nutriment , and to which he is under no obligation to contribute anything that makes for its uplift . There are a good many of them - these one - world - at - a - time fellows - and on the sur- face there is much to ...
... possible savory nutriment , and to which he is under no obligation to contribute anything that makes for its uplift . There are a good many of them - these one - world - at - a - time fellows - and on the sur- face there is much to ...
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... possible , make some preparation for it . He would occasionally read a book that tells about it , or talk with somebody who had been there , or let his mind in imag- ination some quiet Sunday evening roam toward that delectable country ...
... possible , make some preparation for it . He would occasionally read a book that tells about it , or talk with somebody who had been there , or let his mind in imag- ination some quiet Sunday evening roam toward that delectable country ...
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... which ought to shame the man who runs to cover under the plea , " I'm as good as the average . It set up a lofty but by no means an im- possible criterion of conduct . " Don't be satisfied with [ 23 ] " GOOD AS THE AVERAGE "
... which ought to shame the man who runs to cover under the plea , " I'm as good as the average . It set up a lofty but by no means an im- possible criterion of conduct . " Don't be satisfied with [ 23 ] " GOOD AS THE AVERAGE "
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Friendly Talks to the Average Man on Clean and Useful Living Howard Allen Bridgman. possible criterion of conduct . " Don't be satisfied with doing good to those who treat you squarely , but do good to the people who are mean and hateful ...
Friendly Talks to the Average Man on Clean and Useful Living Howard Allen Bridgman. possible criterion of conduct . " Don't be satisfied with doing good to those who treat you squarely , but do good to the people who are mean and hateful ...
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... possible , but your children miss the direct touch of your personality upon them , your wife longs for the old , happy , close com- radeship , and children and wife both are beginning to show to others the lack of just such an influence ...
... possible , but your children miss the direct touch of your personality upon them , your wife longs for the old , happy , close com- radeship , and children and wife both are beginning to show to others the lack of just such an influence ...
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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.