The Greatest Thing in the World: An AddressHodder and Stoughton, 1890 - 64 էջ |
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abideth faith analysis of Love Beareth all things beautiful behave itself unseemly cease charity Christ's yoke Christian contrasting Love Courtesy covet Doth not behave dwelleth in Love end is greater eternal fulfil Generosity Give pleasure give your bodies God is love going to last Gospel greater than faith greatest thing Guilelessness happiness HARVARD COLLEGE heart Heaven honour ill temper ingredients iniquity Jesus kind knowledge has vanished language learn Love live to-morrow look Love dwelleth Love envieth Love never faileth Love suffereth long Love vaunteth magnet mystery nature of things 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 Talent develops test of religion Thinketh no evil to-day tongues truth ungentle unloved unselfish want to live whosoever words WORLD THE GREATEST
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Էջ 5 - 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.
Էջ 7 - 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 7 - ... beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
Էջ 41 - ... of moral fibre, 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.
Էջ 24 - For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, — believe the aged friend,— Is just our chance o...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.