"Poor Esther!" said he gloomily. "She has been brought up among men, and is not used to harness. If things go wrong she will rebel..., and a woman who rebels is lost."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, declar...ing that every man should be master in his own house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So Haman came in, and the king said to him, "What shall be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?" Haman said to himself,... "Whom would the king wish to honor more than me?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The preacher then went on to criticise the attitude of religion towards science. "If there is still a feeling of hostility between... them ... it is no longer the fault of religion. There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is so no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea,--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody,--I AM!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like most vigorous-minded men, seeing that there was no stopping-place between dogma and negation, he preferred to accept dogma. O...f all weaknesses he most disliked timed and half-hearted faith. He would rather have jumped at once to Strong's pure denial, than yield an inch to the argument that a mystery was to be paltered with because it could not be explained.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The form of act or thought mattered nothing. The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crime...s of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and the materialism of to-day, were all emanation of divine thought, doing their appointed work. It was the duty of the church to deal with them all, not as though they existed through a power hostile to the deity, but as instruments of the deity to work out his unrevealed ends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startl...ed to find that he must obey the God he summoned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"To me it seems a shocking idea. I despise and loathe myself, and yet you thrust self at me from every corner of the church as tho...ugh I loved and admired it. All religion does nothing but pursue me with self even into the next world."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to fin...d out how we can get hold of the truth at all."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »