Real Religion: Friendly Talks to the Average Man on Clean and Useful LivingPilgrim Press, 1910 - 184 páginas |
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... Sometime even the one - world - at - a - time men may wake up and find themselves wofully mistaken . We are not forecasting their plight then , but it is folly to try to wall out here and now the world of spiritual realities . The one ...
... Sometime even the one - world - at - a - time men may wake up and find themselves wofully mistaken . We are not forecasting their plight then , but it is folly to try to wall out here and now the world of spiritual realities . The one ...
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... sometime he would , if 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 ...
... sometime he would , if 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 ...
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... sometimes teach the pulpit a lesson . At any rate , there is a deal of gospel sense in this view of life . For we are all " up against it " in one way and another . Whether we go abroad or stay at home , whether we work for ourselves or ...
... sometimes teach the pulpit a lesson . At any rate , there is a deal of gospel sense in this view of life . For we are all " up against it " in one way and another . Whether we go abroad or stay at home , whether we work for ourselves or ...
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... sometimes necessary to give a jolt to the man who is so cock - sure of his infidelity that he forgets his own past and forgets that which is best and deepest in his own nature . 1 For religion is in our very blood . Talk about [ 27 ] ...
... sometimes necessary to give a jolt to the man who is so cock - sure of his infidelity that he forgets his own past and forgets that which is best and deepest in his own nature . 1 For religion is in our very blood . Talk about [ 27 ] ...
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... sometimes more genuine religion in a follower of a so - called heathen religion than in some nominal Christians . We are not talking now about forms and creeds , about denominations and isms . We are talking of that which underlies all ...
... sometimes more genuine religion in a follower of a so - called heathen religion than in some nominal Christians . We are not talking now about forms and creeds , about denominations and isms . We are talking of that which underlies all ...
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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.