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Page 161 - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead.
Page 160 - For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office : so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.
Page 162 - There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female : for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.
Page 106 - Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant...
Page 160 - For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit...
Page 142 - Rest is not quitting The busy career; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. Tis the brook's motion, Clear without strife, Fleeing to ocean After its life. Deeper devotion Nowhere hath knelt; Fuller emotion Heart never felt. Tis loving and serving The Highest and Best! Tis onwards! unswerving, And that is true rest.
Page 160 - Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are diversities of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
Page 123 - The best of humanity is the most perfect reflection of God : humanity as it might be, not as it is ; and the way up to Him is to be found in the lives of the best and greatest men ; of saints and legislators and philosophers, the founders of states, and the founders of religions— allowing for, and seeking to correct their necessary onesidedness. These heroes, or demigods, or benefactors, as they would have been called by the ancients, are the mediators between God and man. Whither they went we...
Page 161 - For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body ; so also is Christ.
Page 67 - So that we in the present, and yet more our scientific descendants in the future, must use, when we desire to praise a character, the old expression, gentleman, in nearly the old sense: one of a happy strain of blood, one fortunate in descent from brave and selfrespecting ancestors, whether clowns or counts.