Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, bartHodder and Stoughton, 1871 - 168 sayfa |
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Sayfa 78 - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Sayfa 124 - Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try : Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. 4 Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native air ; His watchword at the gates of death ; He enters heaven with prayer. 5 Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways ; While angels in their songs rejoice, And cry—
Sayfa 132 - ... without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel; we shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a byword down to future ages.
Sayfa 89 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Sayfa 75 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Sayfa 131 - I live, the more convincing Proofs I see of this Truth, That God governs in the Affairs of Men, — And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid? — We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that except the Lord build the House, they labour in vain that build it.
Sayfa 131 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it...
Sayfa 142 - And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith : for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Sayfa 113 - Christ formed in his heart the hope of glory "— oneness, incorporation, vital and conscious union with the Lord. From this time, " the life that he lived in the flesh, he lived, by the faith of the Son of God, who loved him and gave himself for him : " and
Sayfa 123 - Lord,' or his spirit broken and crushed by disasters, — he prayed. The necessity to his soul of the hallowed exercise, seemed to increase as his day declined. He found it to be strength in weakness, light in darkness, life in death. Through it, 'though the outward man perished, the inward man was renewed day by day.