Suggestive Thoughts for a Holy Life: Being Selections from Modern AuthorsE.T. Whitfield, 1854 - 96 pages |
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Page 85 - Oh! it is hard to take to heart the lesson that such deaths will teach, but let no man reject it, for it is one that all must learn, and is a mighty, universal Truth. When Death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the...
Page 70 - If history teaches us anything it is the solidarity of all mankind, that " no man liveth unto himself," and "no man dieth unto himself," but that we are each his
Page 59 - It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
Page 52 - It is not so much to admire moral good ; that we may do, and yet not be ourselves conformed to it ; but if we really do abhor that which is evil, not the persons in whom evil resides, but the evil which...
Page 5 - Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist ; but, by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which would have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.
Page 91 - I would however venture to call it, benevolence in trifles, or the preference of others to ourselves in little daily, hourly, occurrences in the commerce of life. A better place, a more commodious seat, priority in being helped at table, &c.
Page 46 - Has the reader never known a season, when, in the fullest flow of thought and feeling, in the universal action of the soul, an inward calm, profound as midnight silence, yet bright as the still summer noon, full of joy, but unbroken by one throb of tumultuous passion, has been breathed through his spirit, and given him a glimpse and presage of the serenity of a happier world ? Of this character is the peace of religion.
Page 46 - Of this character is the peace of religion. It is a conscious harmony with God and the creation, an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and nappy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe, an entire concord of purpose with its infinite Original.
Page 87 - Bees will not work except in darkness; Thought will not work except in Silence; neither will Virtue work except in Secrecy. Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth! Neither shalt thou prate even to thy own heart of "those secrets known to all.
Page 90 - Could the veil which now separates us from futurity be drawn aside, and those regions of everlasting happiness and sorrow, which strike so faintly on the imagination, be presented fully to our eyes, it would occasion, I doubt not, a sudden and strange revolution in our estimate of things. Many are the distresses for which we now weep in suffering or sympathy, that would awaken us to songs of thanksgiving ; many the dispensations which now seem dreary and inexplicable, that would fill our adoring...