 That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil - widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.  Essays on Educational Reformers - Side 131af Robert Hebert Quick - 1890 - 568 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 412 sider
...belief of my own, and it comforts me." "What is that?" said Will, rather jealous of the belief. "That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't...quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle... | |
 | Mike W. Martin - 2000 - 269 sider
...rather than imperfect moral concern. We recognize her authenticity when she affirms this credo: "That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't...quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil" (392). Is there perhaps an element of egoism mixed with... | |
 | Gisela Argyle - 2002 - 284 sider
...her natural sensitivity to the beautiful. The belief which she confesses comforts her most is "[t]hat by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't...quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil - widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with... | |
 | George Eliot - 2005 - 1416 sider
...belief of my own, and it comforts me.' 'What is that?' said Will, rather jealous of the belief. 'That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't...quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with... | |
 | George Eliot - 2006 - 458 sider
...belief of my own, and it comforts me." "What is that?" said Will, rather jealous of the belief. "That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't...quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil - widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with... | |
 | George Eliot - 2006 - 550 sider
...belief of my own, and it comforts me." "What is that?" said Will, rather jealous of the belief. "That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't...quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil - widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1877 - 544 sider
...for others. But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me.' ' What is that? ' said Will ..." That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't...quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the Divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle... | |
 | 1875 - 732 sider
...have a striving good enough to be called a failure. By desiring what is perfectly good, even where we don't quite know what it is, and cannot do what we would, we are part of the Divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle... | |
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