Letters to His FriendsLongmans, Green, 1907 - 210 páginas |
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Alassio Alexandra Gardens athletic beauty believe better Bishop BISHOP OF SOUTHWELL Blackheath blessing Brislington brother called Cambridge Christ Christ's College Church Clifton College comfort deeper divine Eastbourne enter eternal expression faith Father feel felt Forbes Robinson give glad God's grace Greek Habkern heart heaven hope human Human clay ideal influence interest Killybegs knew Kokstad lecture lesson light live look matter means mind Moritz nearer never Old Testament ordination ourselves perfect perhaps person pray prayer prize realise remember revelation Rossall seems selfish Semitic Languages simple sometimes soul South Africa spirit strange strength sure sympathy Syriac talk teach tell Testament thank Theological thing thought Tripos true trust truth undergraduate understand unseen unselfish utterly walking whole wish wonderful words writes ἐν
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Página 143 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Página 169 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone ; but if it die, it beareth much fruit.
Página 53 - And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef.
Página 181 - But thou would'st not alone Be saved, my father ! alone Conquer and come to thy goal, Leaving the rest in the wild.
Página 133 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own ; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Página 147 - Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A cry above the conquer'd years To one that with us works, and trust, With faith that comes of self-control, The truths that never can be proved Until we close with all we loved, And all we flow from...
Página 175 - Not as one blind and deaf to our beseeching, Neither forgetful that we are but dust, Not as from heavens too high for our up-reaching, Coldly sublime, intolerably just : — Nay but thou knewest us, Lord Christ thou knowest, Well thou rememberest our feeble frame, Thou canst conceive our highest and our lowest, Pulses of nobleness and aches of shame.
Página 181 - Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, Thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.
Página 127 - They that turn many to righteousness, shall shine as the stars for ever and ever.
Página 164 - Ah yet, when all is thought and said, The heart still overrules the head; Still what we hope we must believe, And what is given us receive...