Prize Letters to StudentsSleight, 1831 - 85 sider |
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Side 11
... excellence or extreme depravity is always formed by degrees . Moral principles , like the powers of the intellect and the body , have their infancy , growth , and maturity . The only infallible standard of character is the word of God ...
... excellence or extreme depravity is always formed by degrees . Moral principles , like the powers of the intellect and the body , have their infancy , growth , and maturity . The only infallible standard of character is the word of God ...
Side 57
... excellence , I know , has no charms for the eye of infidels , profligates , and devils . They would have you annihilate the authority of conscience and Revelation , blot out every impression of immortality , TO STUDENTS . 57.
... excellence , I know , has no charms for the eye of infidels , profligates , and devils . They would have you annihilate the authority of conscience and Revelation , blot out every impression of immortality , TO STUDENTS . 57.
Side 59
... paid to this high moral excellence . Who occupies a large space in the affections of his fellow - men , and is entrusted with power where great interests are at stake ? Who sinks in death amid the tears and regrets of TO STUDENTS . 59.
... paid to this high moral excellence . Who occupies a large space in the affections of his fellow - men , and is entrusted with power where great interests are at stake ? Who sinks in death amid the tears and regrets of TO STUDENTS . 59.
Side 76
... excellence . The passages cited allude to special distinction in heaven ; and they allude , too , to special sacrifices and efforts in the service of God . The inheritance of the redeemed is not , indeed , bestowed as a matter of merit ...
... excellence . The passages cited allude to special distinction in heaven ; and they allude , too , to special sacrifices and efforts in the service of God . The inheritance of the redeemed is not , indeed , bestowed as a matter of merit ...
Side 80
... excellence on which the eye lights with such interest , as it wanders back upon the history of our race . This gives fortitude , patience , and zeal . It creates grandeur of aim , stability of purpose , and promp- titude of action . It ...
... excellence on which the eye lights with such interest , as it wanders back upon the history of our race . This gives fortitude , patience , and zeal . It creates grandeur of aim , stability of purpose , and promp- titude of action . It ...
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Side 27 - How sweet are thy words unto my taste ! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth.
Side 64 - ... wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations ; that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ...
Side 37 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Side 46 - Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, The people in whose heart is my law; Fear ye not the reproach of men, Neither be ye afraid of their revilings. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, And the worm shall eat them like wool: But my righteousness shall be for ever, And my salvation from generation to generation.
Side 18 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, And the man that getteth understanding : For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, And the gain thereof than fine gold.
Side 53 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Side 30 - Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness; but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Side 28 - Samuel, and of the prophets : who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Side 28 - Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Side 38 - Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.