The origin of evil and other sermons [by A.W. Momerie].W. Blackwood & Sons, 1879 - 224 pages |
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... never have attained to the possession of a good character , for that comes only through the conquest of temptation . We might have been innocent as animals but never upright as men . You mothers , as you look into the faces of your ...
... never have attained to the possession of a good character , for that comes only through the conquest of temptation . We might have been innocent as animals but never upright as men . You mothers , as you look into the faces of your ...
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... never have attained . would have been better for us , no doubt , to have been tempted without falling ; but it is better to have fallen , and to be able to rise again , than never to have been tempted at all . All moral creatures in the ...
... never have attained . would have been better for us , no doubt , to have been tempted without falling ; but it is better to have fallen , and to be able to rise again , than never to have been tempted at all . All moral creatures in the ...
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Alfred Williams Momerie. a regal godlike glory which , but for temptation , could never have been ours , any more than it could be attained by zoophytes or machines . " To him that overcometh , " says Christ , " will I grant to sit with ...
Alfred Williams Momerie. a regal godlike glory which , but for temptation , could never have been ours , any more than it could be attained by zoophytes or machines . " To him that overcometh , " says Christ , " will I grant to sit with ...
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... never saw it . They erred , in my judgment , in representing God as justice rather than as love ; whereas , accord- ing to the teaching of Christ , God's justice is but one phase of His love . All He does apparently in justice He really ...
... never saw it . They erred , in my judgment , in representing God as justice rather than as love ; whereas , accord- ing to the teaching of Christ , God's justice is but one phase of His love . All He does apparently in justice He really ...
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... not only those who will have a niche in the Temple of Fame that are teachers of sorrow's divine lessons . I have known women of whom the world will never hear , whose whole life was one protracted grief , The Mystery of Suffering . 2 I.
... not only those who will have a niche in the Temple of Fame that are teachers of sorrow's divine lessons . I have known women of whom the world will never hear , whose whole life was one protracted grief , The Mystery of Suffering . 2 I.
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Page 131 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Page 183 - The heavens declare the glory of God: And the firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard.
Page 59 - Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete; That not a worm is cloven in vain; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain.
Page 180 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 59 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 218 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 241 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.
Page 26 - Then said the Jews unto him ; Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham ? Jesus said unto them ; Verily, verily, I say unto you ; Before Abraham was, I am.
Page 139 - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, [Thou shalt not bear false witness,] Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page 179 - And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.