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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Wine is bottled poetry.
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
You can kill the body but not the spirit.
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.
Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.
The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
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