Omnia vincit amorJ. & E. Bumpus, 1901 - 80 pages |
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19th century absolute accepted action adaptation amongst Anglo-Saxon animal world ant-hill assimilate atoms autocracy become believe bids blind Bossuet Catholic character chiefly choice Christ Christian circumstances cism claim common complexity conscience conviction cryptoid doctrine dogmatic duty earnest elements enforce evolution excommunicate fact Faith favour Ferrero force France free examination French Academy geometrical progression gift God's gospel HARVARD COLLEGE heart heredity higher hope human hunger ideal impulse infallible influence instinct intelligence Jesuit knowledge leaders liberty light live Love man's mankind mass means mental microbe mind moral Aboulie nations nature Nietzsche obedience obeys ourselves Over-Soul perfect persecuted physical possesses Protestant Protestantism races reach realised recognise reform religion religious renewed result Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholicism Roman Church Rome Science scientific seek sense social spirit struggle teaching tendencies therein things thou thought tion tradition true truth unto viscera whole worship XIXth Century
Popular passages
Page 55 - For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Page 56 - But as then he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Page 67 - I care little about the sword: I will allow a thing to struggle for itself in this world, with any sword or tongue or implement it has, or can lay hold of. We will let it preach, and pamphleteer, and fight, and to the uttermost bestir itself, and do, beak and claws, whatsoever is in it; very sure that it will, in the long-run, conquer nothing which does not deserve to be conquered.
Page 58 - Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this end am I come into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.
Page 17 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Page 57 - But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema.
Page 69 - I understood as a child, I thought as a child : but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Page 72 - His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou has been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Page 17 - For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face.
Page 55 - With freedom did Christ set us free : stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.