Beckonings for Every Day: A Calendar of Thought |
Common terms and phrases
April August beauty bless blossoming breath CARLYLE CHARLES KINGSLEY Christ darkness DEAN STANLEY death December divine DORA GREENWELL doth dream earth EDWIN MORRIS eternal eyes F. D. MAURICE F. W. ROBERTSON faith February feel flower forever GEORGE ELIOT GEORGE MACDONALD give glory God's grow hath heart heaven heavenly height holy HORACE BUSHNELL human immortal infinite J. C. SHAIRP J. G. WHITTIER J. R. LOWELL JAMES MARTINEAU January JOHN RUSKIN JOUBERT July June light live look MADAME DE GASPARIN man's March mind mountains MOUNTFORD nature never November October P. J. BAILEY perfect PHILLIPS BROOKS pray prayer presence R. W. EMERSON S. T. COLERIDGE September shine smile song soul spirit stars sweet tenderness Thee thine things THOMAS CARLYLE thou art thought tion toil true truth unto voice W. E. CHANNING W. H. FREEMANTLE weary words WORDSWORTH
Popular passages
Page 174 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun: If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice "believe no more" And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd "I have felt.
Page 186 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 61 - O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live; Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth...
Page 216 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.
Page 168 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 86 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good, shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 129 - And mountain crags : so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in Himself.
Page 31 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.
Page 66 - I but open my eyes, — and perfection, no more and no less, In the kind I imagined, full-fronts me, and ' God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.
Page 28 - A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.