 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca, sir Roger L'Estrange - Conduct of life - 1780 - 452 pages
...Obliquity of the Intent. And the feme Reafon holds good. even in Religion itfelf : It is not the Incenfe, or the Offering that is acceptable to God, but the Purity and Devotion of the Worfhipper. Neither is the bare Will,. without Action, fufficient ; that is, where we have the. Means... | |
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Conduct of life - 1803 - 372 pages
...all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself : it is not the incense, or the offering, that is acceptable...God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper. Neither is the bare will, without action, sufficient; that is, where we have the means of acting ;... | |
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Conduct of life - 1818 - 516 pages
...all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself: it is not the incense, or the offering, that is acceptable...God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper. Neither is the bare will, without action, sufficient; that is, where we have the means of acting; for,... | |
 | Charles Feist - 1833 - 304 pages
...Sophroniscus but for his son Socrates ; nor of Aristo and Gryllus, if it had not been for Zenophon and Plato. It is not the incense, or the offering, that is acceptable...God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper. A certain Pythagorean contracted with a cobhler for a pair of shoes, and some three or four days after,... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...patrician, who, in the license of the time, has seated next him ? Lamb. 8EC. CXL. MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable...God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper : neither 1 is the bare will, without action, sufficient; that is, where we have the means of acting;... | |
 | Sir Roger Lestrange, Knt. - 1855 - 668 pages
...all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering, that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshiper; neither is the bare will, without action, sufficient, that is, where we have the means of... | |
 | Anne Mathews - 1860 - 380 pages
...all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense or the offering that is acceptable...God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper. Neither is the bare will without actions sufficient ; that is, where we have the means of acting, for... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable...God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper. — Seneca. MUNI LICENCE. Munificence is not quantity, but qnalitv. — ____ Pascal. The proofs of... | |
 | James Harold Doyle - Education - 1921 - 300 pages
...education can never be anybody's good intentions — regardless of how good they may be. Seneca says that, "It is not the incense or the offering that is acceptable...God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper." Neither is it the educational incense of our mere good intentions, or of our best objective equipment... | |
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... my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me ? the providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself: it is not the incense, or the offering, that is acceptable... 