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Page 245 - Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and. to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Page 20 - Each age must worship its own thought of God, More or less earthy, clarifying still With subsidence continuous of the dregs ; Nor saint nor sage could fix immutably The fluent image of the unstable Best, Still changing in their very hands that wrought : To-day's eternal truth To-morrow proved Frail as frost-landscapes on a window-pane.
Page 315 - ALMIGHTY God, thy piercing eye Strikes through, the shades of night; And our most secret actions lie All open to thy sight. There's not a sin that we commit, Nor wicked word we say, But in thy dreadful book 'tis writ, Against the judgment day.
Page 305 - That the child is to grow up a Christian, and never know himself as being otherwise. In other words, the aim, effort, and expectation should be, not, as is commonly assumed, that the child is to grow up in sin, to be converted after he comes to a mature age; but that he is to open on the world as one that is spiritually renewed, not remembering...
Page 225 - The time of business," said he, " does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess GOD in as great tranquillity as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.
Page 227 - I could help it \ but there are times when it is not I that is talking, when I am caught up and carried away so that I know not whether I am in the body or out of the body...
Page 396 - Sweet the genesis of things, Of tendency through endless ages, Of star-dust, and star-pilgrimages, Of rounded worlds, of space and time, Of the old flood's subsiding slime, Of chemic matter, force and form, Of poles and powers, cold, wet, and warm: The rushing metamorphosis Dissolving all that fixture is, Melts things that be to things that seem, And solid nature to a dream.
Page 315 - Remember all the dying pains That my Redeemer felt, And let his blood wash out my stains, And answer for my guilt.
Page 225 - GOD'S sake which we commonly do for our own. That it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works, which they performed very imperfectly, by reason of their human or selfish regards. That the most excellent method he had found of going to GOD was that of doing our common business without any view of pleasing men,* and (as far as we are capable) purely for the love of GOD.
Page 244 - Will : ie conscience may act as human, before it is discovered to be divine. To the agent himself its whole history may seem to lie in his own personality and his visible social relations ; and it shall nevertheless serve as his oracle, though it be hid from him who it is that utters it. The moral consciousness, while thus pausing short of its complete development, fulfils the conditions of responsible life, and makes character real and the virtues possible.