Letters of yesterday, by J.W.Nisbet, 1907 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 54 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Seite 25 - religion ' means the love and wor"ship of God and the love and service of man. We believe the "Scripture that of a truth God is no respecter of persons, but that "in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is "accepted of Him.
Seite 65 - The storm is changed into a calm, At His command and will ; So that the waves which raged before Now quiet are and still I Then are they glad, — because at rest And quiet now they be : So to the haven He them brings Which they desired to see.
Seite 109 - The sound of which will make the blood tingle in men's veins; and whole Armies and Assemblages will sing it, with eyes weeping and burning, with hearts defiant of Death, Despot and Devil.
Seite 91 - I " will be to him a Father, and he shall " be to me a Son." And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, " Let all the Angels of
Seite 9 - Here on Earth we are as Soldiers, fighting in a foreign land; that understand not the plan of the campaign, and have no need to understand it ; seeing well what is at our hand to be done. Let us do it like Soldiers, with submission, with courage, with a heroic joy. ' Whatsoever ' thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.
Seite 125 - Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!
Seite 117 - For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence : but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Seite 115 - is the very voice of Scotland, expressive of all her passionate love and tragic sorrow for her darling son. It has paragraphs of massy gold, capable of being beaten out into volumes, as indeed they have been. Unlike some of Carlyle's essays, it is by no means open to the charge of mysticism, but is distinguished by the soundest good sense.
Seite 95 - I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, ye have no life in you...