| William Laurence Brown - 1826 - 378 pages
..." delivers him from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God."a " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city."b It is this purifying and exalting energy that has exhibited all the illustrious and magnificent... | |
| Samuel Nott - 1828 - 412 pages
...your heart with all diligence. Be watchful to discover, and courageous to check every evil passion. " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." Let your heart be pure— -let love and kindtiess and the fear of God be there, and the tongue will... | |
| Asa Dodge Smith - 1832 - 274 pages
...accomplish much in the world. Strive to gain a perfect mastery over yourself. Well has the Scripture said, " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." After all that has been said about greatness of moral character, it consists more in this simple trait... | |
| 1833 - 784 pages
...rising throb of your heart that beats with an unholy poiseRemember what the wisest of men hath said, " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." I now must return to the task I hare begun, and complete the melancholy narrative that tradition has... | |
| Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - 730 pages
...allowable, it is a bounden duty, to " contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints." But " he that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city." Even those bitter enemies of the church, who " bring in damnable heresies," are greatly to be pitied,... | |
| British and foreign sailors' society - 1879 - 398 pages
...off. I. Have an earnest desire and resolution. Anecdote of a reformed sailor. 2. Look above for help. He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city. The men were told that though profanity was forbidden on board, not wishing to be too severe, one exception... | |
| William Andrus Alcott - 1837 - 398 pages
...rule over his own spirit, is like a city that is broken down, and without walls ; " and again — " He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." Socrates and Seneca, though without the light of christianity, or even of Judaism, appear not only... | |
| 1838 - 786 pages
...shed one drop of their persecutors' blood — what should they say of them but what God had said, " He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city. ' Let the report go forth. It contained facts full of promise and full of prophecy ; facts which told... | |
| 1838 - 492 pages
...the reverse. This victory over himself was far more glorious than his subsequent conquest of France. "He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city," Prov. xvi. 32. Yet ambition may have been the ruling passion which induced Henry to contend with these... | |
| 1838 - 602 pages
...by these rules, than to be a king and rule a nation !" The Bible praises this kind of government. " He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city." It is better to conquer one's self than to conquer a city. But how miserable, how much to be pitied,... | |
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