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Página 322 - In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
Página 243 - And that I may go unto the altar of GOD, even unto the GOD of my joy and gladness : and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee, O GOD, my GOD.
Página 345 - Alará with a challenge to the family, one of the characters crying out : " Is our family worth such sacrifices? ... It can only be kept up by continual sacrifices of the land, of the tenants, of its own children. It is like a wicked old dying god, that can only be kept alive by sacrifices — human sacrifices." In Adam and Eve Erskine applies a light irony to the foundations of the family, and his picture of Eve constraining Adam to domesticity and making the poor fish like it is a definite satire...
Página 133 - Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of heaven as a little child, shall in no wise enter therein.
Página 101 - Gervase, was a faith which did not depend on the beauty of externals for its appeal — a faith, moreover, which was not afraid to make itself hard to men, which threw up round itself massive barriers of hardship, and yet within these was warm and sweet and friendly — which was furthermore a complete adventure, a taking of infinite risks, a gateway on unknown dangers.
Página 136 - ... merely branches of that most bitter root. . . . He had been unable to convince Gervase because he was not convinced himself— he had been unable to inspire his father because he was not inspired himself. All his life he had stood for moderation, toleration, broad-mindedness . . . and here he was, so moderate that no one would believe him, so tolerant that no one would respect him, so broad-minded that the water of life lay as it were stagnant in a wide and shallow pond instead of rushing powerfully...
Página 229 - ... signs of the age, was there anything in them which might reassure one's hope? Could any gain be counted amid the vast losses of an earthquake? That was the problem which met this New Testament writer, and his answer to it is unhesitating and clear. This shaking of earth and heaven, he says, signifies the removing of those things which are shaken, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Página 295 - When he thought of that quiet, ancient house (Fourhonses), with its bricked floors and wide sunny spaces, with its humming kitchen fire and salt-riddled beam work; above all, when he thought of it as the home of loving hearts and the peace which follows daring, he (Peter Alard) felt unendurably the contrast of what he had made of Starvecrow. " The novel is a magnificent piece of writing.
Página 276 - ... our sacrifices. . . . My dear, I shall trust you and your mother. ..." "Of course, Ward, of course. . . . It's all been a silly misunderstanding." Gertrude flushed red. She got to her feet. "I've been a damn suspicious fool . . . but you mustn't go to the front, Ward. I'll talk mother around.