The Changed Life: An AddressHodder and Stoughton, 1891 - 62 páginas |
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Página 19 - But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
Página 21 - First law, every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state...
Página 9 - I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
Página 37 - I should like to have been with them then. I wish that His hands had been placed on my head, That His arms had been thrown around me, And that I might have seen His kind look, when He said, "Let the little ones come unto me.
Página 23 - The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth ; keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin.
Página 42 - the glory of the Lord." And what the world is conscious of, if the result be a true one, is also " the glory of the Lord." In looking at a mirror one does not see the mirror, or think of it, but only of what it reflects. For a mirror never calls attention to Itself — except when there are flaws in it That this is a real experience and not a vision, that this life is possible to men, is being lived by men to-day, is simple biographical fact.
Página 24 - We, all reflecting, as a mirror, the character of Christ, are transformed into the same image from character to character — from a poor character to a better one, from a better one to one a little better still, from that to one still more complete, until by slow degrees the perfect image is attained.
Página 27 - This law of Assimilation is the second, and by far the most impressive truth which underlies the formula of sanctification — the truth that men are not only mirrors, but that these mirrors, so far from being mere reflectors of the fleeting things they see, transfer into their own inmost substance, and hold iu permanent preservation, the things that they reflect.
Página 61 - Mirrored, this steadying of the faculties unerringly through cloud and earthquake, fire and sword, is the stupendous co-operating labor of the Will. It is all man's work. It is all Christ's work. In practice it is both; in theory it is both. But the wise man will say in practice, "It depends upon myself." In the Galerie des Beaux Arts in Paris there stands a famous statue. It was the last work of a great genius, who, like many a genius, was very poor and lived In a garret, which served as studio...
Página 30 - THE ALCHEMY OF INFLUENCE. IF events change men, much more persons. No man can meet another on the street without making some mark upon him. We say we exchange words when we meet ; what we exchange is souls. And when intercourse is very close and very frequent, so complete is this exchange that recognizable bits of the one soul begin to show in the other's nature, and the second is conscious of a similar and growing debt to the first. This mysterious approximating of two souls who has not witnessed...