Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at th...e last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the street...s, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dead have been awakened--shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants--shall I crouch?... The harvest's ripe--and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, Its echo in my heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If all would lead their lives in love like me, Then bloody swords and armor should not be;... No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move, Unless alarm came from the camp of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Home--that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on a...n angel's wings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man de...ems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...A shadow now occasionally crossed my simple, sanguine, and life enjoying mind, a notion that I was never really going to accomp...lish those powerful literary works which would blow a noble trumpet to social generosity and noblesse oblige before the world. What? should I find myself always planning and never achieving ... a richly complicated and yet firmly unified novel?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »