The Spiritual Life: Studies in the Science of ReligionEaton & Mains, 1900 - 279 páginas |
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Página 94 - Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it but "sin
Página 205 - I like a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be.
Página 223 - Master's blessed will — Him in outward works pursue, And serve his pleasure still. Faithful to my Lord's commands, I still would choose the better part : Serve with careful Martha's hands • And loving Mary's heart. 2 Careful without care I am, Nor feel my happy toil : Kept in peace by Jesus...
Página 211 - At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld was death. My native country was a torment to me, and my father's house a strange unhappiness; and whatever I had shared with him, wanting him, became a distracting torture. Mine eyes sought him everywhere, but he was not granted them; and I hated all places, for that they had not him; nor could they now tell me, "he is coming," as when he was alive and absent.
Página 219 - Some in one way, some in another, we seem to touch and have communion with what is beyond the visible world.
Página 182 - I ceased to intend my fancy upon them, they vanished again. After this I found, that as often as I went into the dark and intended my mind upon them, as when a man looks earnestly to see anything which is difficult to be seen, I could make the phantasm return without looking any more upon the sun ; and the oftener I made it return, the more easily I could make it return again.
Página 196 - Life, we have hope in immortality ; but it would be foolish to venture beyond our present understanding, foolish to stop eating, until we gain more goodness and a clearer comprehension of the living God. In that perfect day of understanding, we shall neither eat to live, nor live to eat.
Página 182 - ... which is difficult to be seen, I could make the phantasm return without looking any more upon the sun ; and the oftener I made it return, the more easily I could make it return again. And at length, by repeating this without looking any more upon the sun, I made such an impression on my eye, that, if I looked upon the clouds, or a book, or any bright object, I saw upon it a round bright spot of light like the sun, and, which is still stranger, though 1 looked upon the sun with my right eye...
Página 241 - Christianity the gentler and domestic virtues were nowhere recognized as at all comparable, in point of ethical merit, with the heroic and the civic. But when the ideal was changed by Christ — when the highest place in the hierarchy of the virtues was assigned to faith, hope, and charity ; to piety, patience, and long-suffering ; to forgiveness, self-denial, and even selfabasement — we cannot wonder that, in so extraordinary a collision between the ideals of virtue, it should have been the women...
Página 182 - I shut my right eye, or looked upon a book or the clouds with my left eye, I could see the spectrum of the sun almost as plain as with my right eye, if I did but intend my fancy a little while upon it ; for at first, if I shut my right eye, and looked...