 | 1846 - 706 pages
...true conversion, a true Christ, is now as always to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments The gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering,...excluding sanctity, but a sweet natural goodness, like thine and mine, and that thus invites thine and mine to be and to grow.' In such a rhapsody it... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1818 - 1164 pages
...succeeded thus in discovering many truths, that are not to be found in the Bible ; as, for instance, " that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting,...overpowering, excluding sanctity, but a sweet natural goodness like thine and mine, and that thus invites thine and mine to be, and to grow." The present mode of... | |
 | Albert Baldwin Dod - 1840 - 114 pages
...succeeded thus in discovering many truths, that are not to be found in the Bible ; as, for instance, "that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting,...overpowering, excluding sanctity, but a sweet natural goodness like thine and mine, and that thus invites thine and mine to be, and to grow." The present mode of... | |
 | Princeton Review (Firm) - 1846 - 732 pages
...succeeded thus in discovering many truths that are not to be found in the Bible ; as, for instance, " that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting,...overpowering, excluding sanctity, but a sweet natural goodness like thine and mine, and that thus invites thine and mine, to be, and to grow." The present mode of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...vision. So I love them. Noble provocations go out from them, inviting me also to emancipate myself; to resist evil; to subdue the world; and to Be. And...mine to be and to grow. The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus, than it is to the souls which it profanes. The preachers... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...vision. So I love them. Noble provocations go out from them, inviting me also to emancipate myself; to resist evil; to subdue the world; and to Be. And...mine to be and to grow. The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus, than it is to the souls which it profanes. The preachers... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...to see that only by coming again to themselves, or to God in themselves, can they grow forevermore. It is a low benefit to give me something; it is a...mine to be and to grow. The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus, than to the souls which it profanes. The preachers... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...to see that only by coming again to themselves, or to God in themselves, can they grow forevermore. It is. a low benefit to give me something ; it is...to be and to grow. . " The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus, than to the souls which it profanes. The preachers... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments. . . . The gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering,...excluding sanctity, but a sweet natural goodness, like thine and mine, and that thus invites thine and mine to be and to grow.' Now, without presuming... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments. . . . The gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, but a sweet natural goodness like thine and mine, and that thus invites thine and mine to be and to grow.' Now, without presuming... | |
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It is a low benefit to give me something ; it is a high benefit to enable me to do somewhat of myself. The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, but a sweet, natural... 
