The World's Balance-wheelDodd, Mead, 1920 - 53 pages |
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Page 48 - I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth, I dream'd that was the new city of Friends, Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest, It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words.
Page 47 - I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is, And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud...
Page 7 - ONE whom I knew intimately and whose memory I revere once in my hearing remarked that unless we love people we cannot understand them. This was a new light to me. Another time, after she had taken a decisive step in religion, a friend appealed to her not to be alienated from her regard : and she answered that goodness wheresoever found she thought she loved more than ever. Thus in her lips was the law of kindness. Wisdom rooted in love instructed her how to...
Page 26 - The sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompence. An old young man will be a young old man.
Page 39 - George when he said : *'The Church to which I belong is torn with a fierce dispute ; one part says it is baptism into the name of the Father, and the other that it is baptism in the name of the Father. I belong to one of these parties. I feel most strongly about this. I would die fox it, bat I forget which it is.
Page 37 - He has put the heart in us to live becomingly, not by pedantic rules, but by an instinct of nobility. Jesus is the supreme teacher of the Bible and He came not to forbid or to command, but to place the Kingdom of God as a \ ! living force, and perpetual inspiration within the soul of man, and then, to leave him in freedom and in grace to fulfil himself...
Page 36 - It was not therefore an education of conscience, but a bondage of conscience; it did not bring men to their full stature by teaching them to face their own problems of duty and to settle them, it kept them in a state of childhood, by forbidding and commanding in every particular of daily life. Pharisaism, therefore, whether Jewish...
Page 48 - It is through obedience to this life of the spirit that order is brought out of chaos in the life of the individual and in the life of the community, in the business world, the labour world, and in our great world relations.