Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labours for his race; he clears their painful way to improveme...nt; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon. His is the exaction of the apostle, who speaks but for Christ, when he says, "Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me." His is the ambition of the high master-spirit, which aims to fill a place in the first rank of those who are redeemed from the earth--who stand without fault before the throne of God, who share the last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession of... a police officer, but having chosen it, everyone is obliged to live up to the standard of its requirements. To join in that high enterprise means the surrender of much individual freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal o...f the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through ...us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And now behold the goddess seated on her throne ... receiving the adulation of her worshipper.... An adulation, which translated i...nto plain English means no more than an address of the following kind: "Madam, I like you (no matter whether from fortune, person, or any other motive) and it will conduce much to my pleasure and convenience if you will become my wife: that is, if you will bind yourself before God and man to obey my commands as long as I shall live. And should you after marriage be forgetful of your duty, you will then have given me a legal power of exacting as rigid a performance of it as I shall please."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. ...But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is m...ade of flesh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have... it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »