LifeCrowell, 1888 - 295 páginas |
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Página 186 - And: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and all thy soul and all thy mind and all thy strength." The second is this: "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Página 276 - ... appeals to us, sympathy with it ceases to be a pain. We feel even a pleasure in our activity, and in its partial success in relieving the suffering, and yet more in remedying the evil which causes it. Above all, we find that it calls forth in ourselves, even if not in others, the feeling of Love. Activity directed to the immediate, loving service of the suffering and to the diminution of error, which is the general cause of suffering, is the only joyful labor which lies before man, and gives...
Página 62 - We pierce mountains, we fly round the world, electricity, microscopes, telephones, wars, parliaments, philanthropy, the struggle of parties, universities, learned societies, museums, — is this life? The whole of men's complicated, seething activity, with their trafficking, their wars, their roads of communication, their science and their arts, is for the most part, only the thronging of the unintelligent crowd about the doors of life. CHAPTER VI. DIVISION OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE MEN OF OUR WORLD....
Página 3 - Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Página 186 - But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Página 3 - Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.
Página 225 - He knows that this love of his to one and dislike to another, which has been brought into his existence by himself, is the very essence of his life ; that this is not an accidental property of his life, but that this alone possesses the movement of life — and he places his life in this movement alone, in the augmentation of love.
Página 197 - But men who do not understand life cannot do otherwise than fear death. They see it, and believe in it. "How is there no death?" cry these people in wrath and indignation. "This is sophistry! Death is before us; it has mowed down millions, and it will mow us down as well. And you may say as much as you please that it does not exist, it will remain all the same. Yonder it is!
Página 197 - I am the Resurrection and the Life; he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And every one that liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this...
Página 199 - I shall die. What is there terrible about that? How many changes have taken place, and are now in progress, in my fleshly existence, and I have not feared them? Why should I fear this change which has not yet come, and in which there is nothing repulsive to my reason and experience?