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Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 23: 1877 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed, I also count all things loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but dung, that Imay win Christ, and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ,…
Anonymous (Bible) by Anonymous (Bible)
11 A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but an accurate weight is his delight. 2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but wisdom is with the humble. 3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.
Varieties of Religious Experience by James, William (1842-1910)
LECTURE XIX OTHER CHARACTERISTICS WE have wound our way back, after our excursion through mysticism and philosophy, to where we were before: the uses of religion, its uses to the individual who has it, and the uses of the individual himself to the world, are the best arguments that truth is in it.
Six Enneads by Plotinus (c. 205-270)
THIRD TRACTATE. ARE THE STARS CAUSES? 1. That the circuit of the stars indicates definite events to come but without being the cause direct of all that happens, has been elsewhere affirmed, and proved by some modicum of argument: but the subject demands more precise and detailed investigation for to take the one view rather than the other is of no small moment.
Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Volume I by Stokes, George Thomas (1843-1898)
THE FIRST MIRACLE. "Now Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man that was lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple,…
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 35: 1889 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"My God will hear me." Micah 7:7. OBSERVE that the Prophet has no sort of doubt. He insinuates no "if or "an" or "but" or "perhaps," but he says it straight out as a fact of which he is infallibly convinced—"My God will hear me." What a blessed thing it is that the child of God knows and feels that this is true! Wherever he may fail, he will succeed at the Throne!…
Selected Sermons of Schleiermacher: translated by Mary F. Wilson. by Schleiermacher, Friedrich (1768-1834)
(New Year’s Day.) TEXT: JOB xxxviii. 11. “Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.” THESE words are taken from a sublime discourse, which — is put by the writer in the mouth of the Highest Himself, the Creator and Preserver of the world.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
The greatest of heathen Philosophers, born at Stagira, a Grecian colony in the Thracian peninsula Chalcidice, 384 B.C.; died at Chalcis, in Euboea, 322 B.C. His father, Nicomachus, was court physician to King Amyntas of Macedonia.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 29: 1883 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Who has called us unto His eternal glory." 1 Peter 5:10. A FORTNIGHT ago, when I was only able to creep to the front of this platform, I spoke to you concerning the future of our mortal bodies—[Sermon #1719—The Tent Dissolved and the Mansion Entered]—"We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands,…
What I Saw in America by Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936)
All good Americans wish to fight the representatives they have chosen. All good Englishmen wish to forget the representatives they have chosen. This difference, deep and perhaps ineradicable in the temperaments of the two peoples, explains a thousand things in their literature and their laws.