Hints on the Culture of Character

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J. Hogg, 1855 - Character - 319 pages

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Page 276 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 171 - Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
Page 65 - Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Page 210 - When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 89 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Page 93 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Page 60 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know, that he *which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 152 - Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things ? I tell you, Xay ; but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Page 165 - Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Page 312 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, My King, and my God.

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