In Fetters: the Man Or the Priest?De Wolfe, Fiske & Company, 1893 - 272 páginas |
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Página 193 - Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation ? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Página 260 - will not suffer us to be tempted above what we are able to bear...
Página 39 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.
Página 116 - Man is subordinate to the apocryphal, ambiguous, imperfect, and often erroneous Scripture of the Word; the Word itself, as it comes straightway from the fountain of Truth, through Reason, Conscience, Affection, and the Soul, he must not have. It takes the Bible for God's statute-book ; combines old Hebrew notions into a code of ethics ; takes figures for fact; settles questions in Morals and Religion by texts of Scripture! It can justify any thing out of the Bible. It wars to the knife against gaiety...
Página 93 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Página 198 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Página 260 - Whoever shall say that the clergy constituted in sacred order, or regulars, who have solemnly professed chastity may contract marriage, and that the contract is valid, notwithstanding ecclesiastical law, or vow, and that to maintain the opposite is nothing else than to condemn marriage, and that all may contract marriage who do not think that they have the gift of chastity, even though they have vowed it; let him be accursed...
Página 40 - I'll swell like a shirt bleaching in a high wind ; and look burly as a Sunday beadle, when he has kicked down the unhallowed stall of a profane old apple woman.— Bring my chair of state ! — Enter JULIANA.
Página 118 - Do the joys of paradise pall on the pleasure-jaded senses of the 'elect?' They look off in the distance to the tortures of the damned, where destruction is naked before them, and hell hath no covering; where the devil with his angels stirreth up the embers of the fire which is never quenched ; where the doubters, whom the church could neither answer nor put to silence ; where the great men of antiquity, Confucius, Budha...
Página 116 - God; does not tell us we are born sons of God, as much as Jesus, and may stand as close to God. It does not tell of God now, near at hand, but a long while ago. It makes the Bible a tyrant of the soul. It is our master in all departments of thought. Science must lay his kingly head in the dust; Reason veil her majestic countenance; Conscience bow him to the earth ; Affection keep silence when the priest uplifts the Bible. Man is subordinate to the apocryphal, ambiguous, imperfect, and often erroneous...