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Page 125 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
Page 85 - What can the world profit thee without JESUS? To be without JESUS is a grievous hell ; and to be with JESUS, a sweet paradise. If JESUS be with thee, no enemy shall be able to hurt thee '. He that findeth JESUS, findeth a good treasure ", yea, a Good above all good.
Page 126 - ... disagree; but the pleasure derivable from it, in any sense, will be found in the direct ratio of the reader's capacity to smother its true purpose, in the direct ratio of his ability to keep the allegory out of sight, or of his inability to comprehend it.
Page 6 - I say, from the nature of the case, if literature is to be made a study of human nature, you cannot have a Christian literature. It is a contradiction in terms to attempt a sinless literature of sinful man.
Page 85 - What can the world profit thee without Jesus ? " To be without Jesus is a grievous hell ; and to be with Jesus, a sweet paradise. " If Jesus be with thee, no enemy shall be able to hurt thee.
Page 31 - ... meditates it there where every day Christ is bought and sold. The blame will follow the injured party, in outcry, as is wont ; but the vengeance will be testimony to the truth which dispenses it. Thou shalt leave everything beloved most dearly; and this is the arrow which the bow of exile shoots first. Thou shalt make proof how the bread of others savors of salt, and how hard a 5.
Page 86 - Know for certain that thou oughtest to lead a dying life. * And the more any man dieth to himself, so much the more doth he begin to live unto God. No man is fit to comprehend things heavenly, unless he submit himself to the bearing of adversities for Christ's sake. Nothing is more acceptable to God, nothing more wholesome to thee in this world, than that thou suffer cheerfully for Christ.
Page 123 - a man to put into a museum, but not into your house ; another Zerah Colburn ; a prodigy of imaginative function, executive rather than contemplative or wise." The confession of an insensibility ranging from Shelley to Dickens and from Dante to Miss Austen and taking Don Quixote and Aristophanes on the way, is a large allowance to have to make for a man of letters, and may appear to confirm but slightly any claim of intellectual...
Page 126 - There is no conception of the faith that a man should do his duty cheerfully with all his might though, as far as he can see, he will never be paid directly or indirectly either here or hereafter. Still less is there any conception that unless a man has this faith he is not worth thinking about.