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... death , the same struggle for existence and the same survival of the fittest . Turn your face in that direction , study man in his lower nature , and you recoil with horror as the picture reveals itself to you of man's life on earth ...
... death , the same struggle for existence and the same survival of the fittest . Turn your face in that direction , study man in his lower nature , and you recoil with horror as the picture reveals itself to you of man's life on earth ...
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... death , whose meaning a mere ethical explanation is wholly inadequate to exhaust : The Son of man came to give his life a ransom for many , This is my body which is given for you . ' 66 9966 99 66 When we turn from the gospels to the ...
... death , whose meaning a mere ethical explanation is wholly inadequate to exhaust : The Son of man came to give his life a ransom for many , This is my body which is given for you . ' 66 9966 99 66 When we turn from the gospels to the ...
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... death , nor life , nor angels , nor principalities , nor powers , nor things present , nor things to come , nor height , nor depth , nor any other creature , shall be able to separate us from the love of God , which is in Christ Jesus ...
... death , nor life , nor angels , nor principalities , nor powers , nor things present , nor things to come , nor height , nor depth , nor any other creature , shall be able to separate us from the love of God , which is in Christ Jesus ...
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... death unto life " ( St. John xvii . 3 , v . 24 ) . The difference between the earthly life and the eternal life is not one of quantity or duration , but of quality . The word life in its meaning ranges over a most RELIGIOUS ...
... death unto life " ( St. John xvii . 3 , v . 24 ) . The difference between the earthly life and the eternal life is not one of quantity or duration , but of quality . The word life in its meaning ranges over a most RELIGIOUS ...
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... death came upon the human race , and thereby to make redemption through Christ appear as necessary and rational . It was an attempt to justify God by means of a theory which in its nature was rational- istic . Men were not satisfied to ...
... death came upon the human race , and thereby to make redemption through Christ appear as necessary and rational . It was an attempt to justify God by means of a theory which in its nature was rational- istic . Men were not satisfied to ...
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Page 120 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Page 108 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Page 94 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 120 - So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief That passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could maintain, Nowhere, dominion o'er the enlightened spirit Whose meditative sympathies repose Upon the breast of Faith. I turned away, And walked along my road in happiness.
Page 16 - To spend uncounted years of pain, Again, again, and yet again, In working out in heart and brain The problem of our being here ; To gather facts from far and near, Upon the mind to hold them clear, And, knowing more may yet appear, Unto one's latest breath to fear The premature result to draw — Is this the object, end and law, And purpose of our being here ? THE SHADOW'.
Page 56 - And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
Page 21 - For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's.
Page 95 - He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment ; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Page 162 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 50 - Most men eddy about Here and there — eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die Perish; - and no one asks Who or what they have been, More than he asks what waves, In the moonlit solitudes mild Of the midmost Ocean, have swell'd, Foam'd for a moment, and gone.