Lay Sermons and Addresses Delivered in the Hall of Balliol College, Oxford |
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Agnosticism asceticism aspects Balliol College become belief book of Job called cause character charity Christ Christianity Church civilisation College common consciousness courage danger death deeper difficulties discern divine duty EDWARD CAIRD effort energy evil existence experience expression eyes fact faith feel freedom give Goethe Gospel greater growing hand heart higher highest honour hope hope and faith human idea ideal individual influence interests Israel Judaism justice King Arthur labours lesson lives look Lord maintain man's manifestation mankind meaning mind moral nation natural Old Testament ourselves past patriotism Plato political pure purified Queen Queen Victoria realise recognise regard religion religious seems sense side Sisera social society soldier song of Deborah soul spirit spite struggle suffering tendency Tertullian things thou thought true truth unity universal Victorian era whole widening wider words youth
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Page 244 - If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul.
Page 57 - God's will ! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; It yearns me not if men my garments wear ; Such outward things dwell not in my desires : But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Page 247 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ...
Page 151 - And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
Page 45 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 97 - In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah ; " We have a strong city ; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
Page 280 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho...
Page 167 - Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Page 294 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 181 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.