Life: A Book for a Quiet Hour ...Stevens & Haynes, 1868 - 264 |
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Strona 10
... religion : but it is instinct in youth . * The excesses we often deplore in it are no proof to the contrary , for the soil that grows lusty weeds would bear as * Note A. vigorous corn . There is more natural piety in youth 10 YOUTH .
... religion : but it is instinct in youth . * The excesses we often deplore in it are no proof to the contrary , for the soil that grows lusty weeds would bear as * Note A. vigorous corn . There is more natural piety in youth 10 YOUTH .
Strona 11
... religion can be changed only at the most terrible cost of mental and spiritual struggle . The devil , once in possession , throws us down and tears us in leaving , and even then , " hardly departs . " It is like rending rock instead of ...
... religion can be changed only at the most terrible cost of mental and spiritual struggle . The devil , once in possession , throws us down and tears us in leaving , and even then , " hardly departs . " It is like rending rock instead of ...
Strona 12
... religious persons become so in early life . To let that season pass without deciding for God is to lose the time specially fitted by Him for doing so , for though He will take us at any age , He seeks us in our prime , that our whole ...
... religious persons become so in early life . To let that season pass without deciding for God is to lose the time specially fitted by Him for doing so , for though He will take us at any age , He seeks us in our prime , that our whole ...
Strona 13
... religion , it is youth by which things have been mainly shaped as they are . A glance at facts tells a striking story . Alexander overthrew the Great King , and saved Europe from becoming Asiatic , in extreme youth ; Bonaparte had ...
... religion , it is youth by which things have been mainly shaped as they are . A glance at facts tells a striking story . Alexander overthrew the Great King , and saved Europe from becoming Asiatic , in extreme youth ; Bonaparte had ...
Strona 14
... religion . Luther had won Germany to the Reformation at thirty - five ; Pascal wrote a great work at sixteen , and died at thirty - seven the greatest of Frenchmen ; Whitefield and Wesley had begun the great revival of last century ...
... religion . Luther had won Germany to the Reformation at thirty - five ; Pascal wrote a great work at sixteen , and died at thirty - seven the greatest of Frenchmen ; Whitefield and Wesley had begun the great revival of last century ...
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Strona 67 - Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind ; Faithful friends are hard to find : Every man will be thy friend Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend ; But if store of crowns be scant, No man will supply thy want. If that one be prodigal, Bountiful they will him call, And with such-like flattering,
Strona 26 - Men shall dream dreams," inferreth, that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream. And certainly the more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth ; and Age doth profit rather in the powers of understanding, than in the virtues of the will and affections.
Strona 158 - If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not ? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.
Strona 103 - And yet God deliver us from pinching poverty ; and grant that, having a competency, we may be content and thankful. Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches ; when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches, hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle, that they clog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.
Strona 62 - The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.
Strona 242 - I shall be well enough presently, if you will only let me sit where you are, and take my chair ; for there is a confounded hand in sight of me here, which has often bothered me before, and now it won't let me fill my glass with a good will.
Strona 201 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Strona 234 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Strona 159 - In the poorest cottage are Books ; is one BOOK, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him...
Strona 109 - ... twas a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and that, with all its pretensions, - it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it, - viz.