The Law of Love and Love as a Law: Or, Christian EthicsC. Scribner, 1871 - 400 pages |
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activity affections amphiboly appetites attain become benevolence Bishop Butler blessedness cause character child choice civil command common condition conscience consciousness constitution convergence and unity desire distinction dition divine enjoyment evil faculties feeling give ground of obligation habits happiness Hence higher highest holiness Hopkins impulse individual instinct intel intellect involved JAMES MCCOSH justice labor law of love legislation marriage McCosh means ment moral act moral ideas Moral Law moral nature Moral Reason Moral Science motive natural right ness obey object obligation to choose original ourselves parent perfect person philosophy possible Princeton Review principle promote punishment question quire rational love regard relation require responsibility rights and duties Sabbath sake Scriptures secure sensibility simply society sphere spirit spontaneous subordinate summum bonum suppose supreme end things tion truth ultimate end utilitarianism virtue volition wants wholly WILLIAMS COLLEGE wrong
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Page 195 - A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.
Page 158 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Page 307 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 138 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Page 138 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 166 - For, from our very faculty of habits, passive impressions, by being repeated, grow weaker. Thoughts, by often passing through the mind, are felt less sensibly : being accustomed to danger, begets intrepidity, ie lessens fear ; to distress, lessens the passion of pity ; to instances of others' mortality, lessens the sensible apprehension of our own.
Page 167 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures of it, — this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself, that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible, ie, form a habit of insensibility to all moral considerations.
Page 197 - For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Page 258 - And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
Page 117 - Let it be allowed, though virtue or moral rectitude does indeed consist in affection to and pursuit of what is right and good, as such ; yet, that when we sit down in a cool hour, we can neither justify to ourselves this or any other pursuit, till we are convinced that it will be for our happiness, or at least not contrary to it.