The Spirit of the East Contrasted with the Spirit of the West: Being a Lecture

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by the author, 1906 - 32 páginas
 

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Página 24 - And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Página 10 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Página 25 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Página 6 - The register of knowledge of fact is called history. Whereof there be two sorts: one called natural history; which is the history of such facts, or effects of nature, as have no dependence on man's will; such as are the histories of metals, plants, animals, regions, and the like. The other, is civil history; which is the history of the voluntary actions of men in commonwealths.
Página 22 - Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Página 26 - ... in grace, without asking what title the other had. Christ has the title of doing good to him that is in need and misery. This is grace that gives without a title. See how thoughtful this grace and love is.' He went to him, did not send some one else, but went, bound up his wounds, poured in oil and wine, set him on his own beast. brought him to an inn, took care of him, gave him in charge to the host, and said, "When I come again I will repay thee.
Página 14 - For, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for battle?
Página 2 - It maybe, as the same authority maintains, that the difference between the stationary and progressive societies is one of the great secrets which inquiry has yet to penetrate.
Página 13 - It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration.
Página 13 - ... increases the number of accidents; and it may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms some vigor of wild virtue. For every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

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