| Epictetus - 1877 - 534 pages
...among men on this matter. He says (ii. c. 11) on the beginning of Philosophy : As to good and evil, and what we ought to do and what we ought not to do, and the like, " whoever came into the world without ha vine: ' O an idea (e/x<£vros twoia) of them... | |
| 1881 - 336 pages
...Nothing is easier than a man sitting by his fireside at home and drawing out problems to inform us what we ought to do and what we ought not to do ; but I should like to put these clever men on the bridge of a steamer a dark winter's night with blinding... | |
| Sermons - 1883 - 376 pages
...that trespassing; it is going where they have no business to go. That is what sin is. God has told us what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do. He has put a fence around us and He says, " You keep inside of this fence; all outside is Satan's world.... | |
| Pathway - 1884 - 196 pages
...words of the command ; the spirit or will reaches to thoughts and words as well as deeds. They tell us what we ought to do and what we ought not to do. What we ought to do are virtues, what we ought not to do are sins. We sin when we do wrong, when we... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1887 - 234 pages
...Ghost." He has been with us ever since ; He helps us to pray-to God ; He speaks in our hearts to tell us what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do ; and He makes us strong to leave off what is wrong, and to do what is right. He will lead us on in... | |
| Jacob Abbott - 1900 - 152 pages
...right, and which condemns us when we do wrong, is conscience. CONSCIENCE is very faithful ; it tells us what we ought to do and what we ought not to do. There are several ways in which conscience is faithful to us. I. Conscience warns us, before we begin... | |
| 1896 - 48 pages
...our offices and on our streets, and there makes known in the actual circumstances of our daily life what we ought to do and what we ought not to do — that is the wonder of his revelation. Therefore it is no figure of speech, it is no mere ecstasy... | |
| Phillips Brooks - 1893 - 188 pages
...our offices and on our streets, and there makes known in the actual circumstances of our daily life what we ought to do and what we ought not to do — that is the wonder of his revelation ; that is what proclaims him to be the Son of God and the... | |
| Phillips Brooks - 1893 - 182 pages
...our offices and on our streets, and there makes known in the actual circumstances of our daily life what we ought to do and what we ought not to do — that is the wonder of his revelation ; that is what proclaims him to be the Son of God and the... | |
| 1898 - 450 pages
...beautiful and ugly, and becoming and unbecoming, and happiness and misfortune, and proper and improper, and what we ought to do and what we ought not to do, who ever came into the world without having an innate idea of them ? Wherefore we all use these names,... | |
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