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... Inspire a man to love God and love his brother , and more and more his whole being will be roused to study all nature's laws and powers , that human life may be healed , enriched , and set free by such reasonable service as he can ...
... Inspire a man to love God and love his brother , and more and more his whole being will be roused to study all nature's laws and powers , that human life may be healed , enriched , and set free by such reasonable service as he can ...
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... inspiration of that old knightly nobleness which made men dedicate their swords , their lands , their noble names " to God and the King , " is with us yet . It animates our generation in new forms . But the old truth remains , that your ...
... inspiration of that old knightly nobleness which made men dedicate their swords , their lands , their noble names " to God and the King , " is with us yet . It animates our generation in new forms . But the old truth remains , that your ...
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... inspirations of Christian faith as new proof of their unworthiness as sinful men . Feeling after faith as a great problem , they are able to think much wisdom about God , but not to forget themselves in the love of God or to give ...
... inspirations of Christian faith as new proof of their unworthiness as sinful men . Feeling after faith as a great problem , they are able to think much wisdom about God , but not to forget themselves in the love of God or to give ...
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... inspiration it is ! Let us try to see in detail just what this truth means . Each of us can apply it to his life in all its largeness and fulness . On the one side is your life , with all its peculiar trials , temptations , and cir ...
... inspiration it is ! Let us try to see in detail just what this truth means . Each of us can apply it to his life in all its largeness and fulness . On the one side is your life , with all its peculiar trials , temptations , and cir ...
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... inspiration of the truth that God knows us , is that we can always be answered when we pray that he will show us what we ought to be . God has never concealed from any man the vision of his higher self . He shows to every one just as ...
... inspiration of the truth that God knows us , is that we can always be answered when we pray that he will show us what we ought to be . God has never concealed from any man the vision of his higher self . He shows to every one just as ...
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Page 107 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole ! " As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry " All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul...
Page 289 - Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men : forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God ; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 81 - And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
Page 132 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled.
Page 146 - But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Page 81 - As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.
Page 81 - And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them : and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
Page 210 - Ye blessed creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel — I feel it all.
Page 53 - And he asked him, What is thy name ? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
Page 176 - He may set himself to earn money for that which is not bread and labor for that which satisfieth not.