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abideth faith analysis of Love beautiful behave itself unseemly cease Christ's yoke Christian contrasting Love Courtesy covet Doth not behave dwelleth in Love end is greater eternal fulfil give your bodies giving pleasure God is love going to last Gospel greater than charity greater than faith GREATEST THING Guilelessness happiness HARVARD COLLEGE heart Heaven HENRY DRUMMOND honour ill temper ingredients JAMES POTT Jesus knowledge has vanished language learn Love live to-morrow look Love dwelleth Love envieth Love never faileth Love suffereth long Love vaunteth magnet mystery NATURAL LAW nature of things ness pass Patience prism prophecies prophet rejoiceth remember sacrifice Seeketh singling out love sins Sir James Simpson soul sounding brass speak Spectrum of Love Spirit of Christ summum bonum supreme gift supreme thing take nothing greater test of religion Thinketh no evil tion to-day tongues truth unloved unselfish want to live whosoever words
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Page 8 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Page 34 - For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not ; but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Page 25 - I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Page 59 - Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth...
Page 60 - You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Page 14 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
Page 37 - thinketh no evil," imputes no motive, sees the bright side, puts the best construction on every action. What a delightful state of mind to live in ! What a stimulus and benediction even to meet with it for a day ! To be trusted is to be saved. And if we try to influence or elevate others, we shall soon see that success is in proportion to their belief of our belief in them. For the respect of another is the first restoration of the self-respect a man has lost ; our ideal of what he is becomes to...
Page 58 - This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou has sent." Love must be eternal. It is what God is. On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth, and life never faileth, so long as there is love. That is the philosophy of what Paul is showing us ; the reason why in the nature of things Love should be the supreme thing — because it is going to last; because in the nature of things it is an Eternal Life. It is a thing that we are living...
Page 25 - I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Page 41 - ... nor beauty of spiritual growth. Love is not a thing of enthusiastic emotion. It is a rich, strong, manly, vigorous expression of the whole round Christian character— the Christlike nature in its fullest development. And the constituents of this great character are only to be built up by ceaseless practice.