Lectures on the Moral Government of God, Volum 1

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Clark, Austin & Smith, 1859
As high school senior Rudy adjusts his attitudes toward the elderly when his senile grandmother has to move in with his family, his girlfriend encourages him to talk with a friend's mother who has similar problems with her own mother.
 

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Pàgina 286 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Pàgina 208 - Thus, to say such an action or course of behaviour, procured such pleasure or advantage, or brought on such inconvenience and pain, is quite a different thing from saying, that such good or bad effect was owing to the virtue or vice of such action or behaviour.
Pàgina 286 - ... to walk in their own ways. And yet he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.
Pàgina 382 - I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion...
Pàgina 382 - Be ready always to give an answer to every one that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.
Pàgina 32 - All the worth or value of man or of any other moral being consists in his capacity of happiness, and of that self-active nature which qualifies him to produce happiness to other beings and to himself. All the worth, or value, or goodness, or excellence which pertains to action on the part of a moral being, is its fitness or adaptation to produce these results...
Pàgina 76 - Authority is recognized in words, and even in unreflecting thought and action ; as when we speak of the rising and setting of the sun, or of the sweetness of sugar, or the coldness of ice, as properties of these things which resemble our sensations.
Pàgina 168 - Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.
Pàgina 246 - God ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Pàgina 32 - Were the agent wholly unsusceptible to happiness from the happiness of others, and as therefore he must be wholly indifferent to their happiness, he must be wholly indifferent to benevolence on his own part, as the means of their happiness.

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