The Elements of Christian Science: A Treatise Upon Moral Philosophy and Practice |
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... action comes from the weakness of the Governing Powers , not the strength of Passions . -Laws of the Governing Powers . - 1st , Governing Powers should govern - Subordinate Powers only subordinately act . - Dangers from breach of this ...
... action comes from the weakness of the Governing Powers , not the strength of Passions . -Laws of the Governing Powers . - 1st , Governing Powers should govern - Subordinate Powers only subordinately act . - Dangers from breach of this ...
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... action , the Will of the Man , and the effect of Circumstance . - From this fact a new ground taken upon the sub- ject of the Will . CHAPTER III . • ..335 The meaning of " Circumstance . " -- It does not imply doom or Physical Necessity ...
... action , the Will of the Man , and the effect of Circumstance . - From this fact a new ground taken upon the sub- ject of the Will . CHAPTER III . • ..335 The meaning of " Circumstance . " -- It does not imply doom or Physical Necessity ...
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... actions good or evil ? That is not the question ; that can be plainly answered . His thoughts , words and actions are not his nature . They come from it , certainly , but they are no more his nature than buds , flowers and fruits are ...
... actions good or evil ? That is not the question ; that can be plainly answered . His thoughts , words and actions are not his nature . They come from it , certainly , but they are no more his nature than buds , flowers and fruits are ...
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... actions are really neither good nor evil . That the sense and feeling of pleasure and pain is to them all , and that of ... action but has a moral quality , is either good or evil , and will so be judged , both by himself , by his fellow ...
... actions are really neither good nor evil . That the sense and feeling of pleasure and pain is to them all , and that of ... action but has a moral quality , is either good or evil , and will so be judged , both by himself , by his fellow ...
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... action first , and secondly , a knowledge and governance of our own nature according to it . For clearly , we can ... action , a law and measure by which all action * was regulated . Surely , then , the question , HUMAN NATURE . 23.
... action first , and secondly , a knowledge and governance of our own nature according to it . For clearly , we can ... action , a law and measure by which all action * was regulated . Surely , then , the question , HUMAN NATURE . 23.
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Page 353 - For I know that in me (that is in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing, for to •will is present with me; but how to perform that •which is good I find not.
Page 47 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 300 - Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...
Page 353 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 309 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 216 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 318 - Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, And broader than the sea.
Page 353 - For that which I do I allow not : for what I would, that do I not ; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 20 - Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils ; speaking lies in hypocrisy ; having their conscience seared with a hot iron ; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Page 282 - Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.