Character Essential to Success in LifeWells and Lilly, 1820 - 162 sider |
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Side 158 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Side xii - God, from Whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed ; Give unto Thy servants that peace which the world cannot give ; that both our hearts may be set to obey Thy commandments, and also that by Thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness ; through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Side 154 - The single word eternity communicates a grandeur to all the feelings, hopes, and joys of a religious man. Little expectations, little fears, generate low and little actions. But these diminutives have no place with him all whose calculations of profit and loss are made on an infinite scale. The mind of the most ambitious enlarges here. No need to weep like Alexander, because there are no more worlds to conquer ; here the Christian soldier has full scope; and, while he fights for an immortal crown,...
Side 162 - Whatsoever things are pure, or lovely, or honest, or of good report ; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think of these things.