Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss becau...se of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing like the fun of having brothers, if there is no rivalry.... There is nothing like the fun of summer rains, if there is no mud. There is nothing like the fun of gambling, if there is no loss.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disap...pointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In ancient times--'twas no great loss-- They hung the thief upon the cross:... But now, alas!--I say't with grief-- They hang the cross upon the thief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction between... our present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The general feeling was, and for a long time remained, that one had several children in order to keep just a few. As late as the s...eventeenth century . . . people could not allow themselves to become too attached to something that was regarded as a probable loss. This is the reason for certain remarks which shock our present-day sensibility, such as Montaigne's observation, "I have lost two or three children in their infancy, not without regret, but without great sorrow."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And we can get back to that raw state Of feeling, so long deemed... Inconsequential and therefore appropriate to our later musings About religion, about migrations. What is restored Becomes stronger than the loss as it is remembered; Is a new, separate life of its own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unhappy as the event must be ... we may draw from it this useful lesson: that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that on...e false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »