Discipline, by the author of Letters to my unknown friends1850 |
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... irritation you experience was really caused by nothing but the assertion of the claim of authority in some manner or in some direction that wounded your haughty spirit , and that the action or con- duct thus unpleasantly enforced upon ...
... irritation you experience was really caused by nothing but the assertion of the claim of authority in some manner or in some direction that wounded your haughty spirit , and that the action or con- duct thus unpleasantly enforced upon ...
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... irritation of self - will disturbs and impairs the intellectual powers as well as the moral faculties , and leaves its victim a helpless prey to circumstances . From what has been said you will see the inference is inevitable , that ...
... irritation of self - will disturbs and impairs the intellectual powers as well as the moral faculties , and leaves its victim a helpless prey to circumstances . From what has been said you will see the inference is inevitable , that ...
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... the weak point , to quicken your conscience to the existence of sin . With some people discipline does nothing but * Psalm cxxxix . 14 . pur- irritate their mental disease ; consequently , their character is 42 PRIDE .
... the weak point , to quicken your conscience to the existence of sin . With some people discipline does nothing but * Psalm cxxxix . 14 . pur- irritate their mental disease ; consequently , their character is 42 PRIDE .
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Sydney Warburton. irritate their mental disease ; consequently , their character is deteriorated , instead of improved by the daily experience of life . The surface of their wound is extended by each repeated cause for irritation , and ...
Sydney Warburton. irritate their mental disease ; consequently , their character is deteriorated , instead of improved by the daily experience of life . The surface of their wound is extended by each repeated cause for irritation , and ...
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... irritation has continued so long without yet awakening them to a convic- tion of its real cause , the very next moment may be the one of mercy , the one in which God will open their eyes to see that which no lesser interval of ...
... irritation has continued so long without yet awakening them to a convic- tion of its real cause , the very next moment may be the one of mercy , the one in which God will open their eyes to see that which no lesser interval of ...
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Page 129 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 57 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.