Works, Volúmenes5-6Walker, Wise and Company, 1862 |
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Página 173 - Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name ? and in thy name have cast out devils ? and in thy name done many wonderful works ? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Página 233 - Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, [as] unto a faithful Creator.
Página 220 - Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Página 90 - And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Página 173 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat opon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
Página 358 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Página 339 - ... to uprightness and the public good ; that an oath is unheard in heaven ; that secret crimes have no witness but the perpetrator...
Página 291 - Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him. To seize the Universal in the particular is the great art of wisdom, and this is especially important to one, who is to live amidst details. Another peculiarity of your ministry is, that you are to see human nature more undisguised, naked, than as it falls under our common notice.
Página 201 - I see not why the laboring classes may not take part in the work. Indeed, when I consider the greater simplicity of their lives, and their greater openness to the spirit of Christianity, I am not sure but that the 'golden age' of manners is to begin among those who are now despaired of for their want of refinement. " In these remarks, I have given the name of ' prejudices' to the old opinions respecting rank, and respecting the need of keeping the people from much thought.
Página 418 - ... good. If such men abandon the right of free discussion; if, awed by threats, they suppress their convictions; if rulers succeed in silencing every voice, but that which approves them; if nothing reaches the people, but what will lend support to men in power — farewell to liberty. The form of a free government may remain, but the life, the soul, the substance is fled.