...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...one drop of their persecutors' blood — what should they say of them but what God had said, " 1 le 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...