| 1847 - 390 trang
...pleasure ; but the harvest is reaped in age, by pain. RELIGION. — Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it — anything but live for it. THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT. — He that will often put this world and the next before him, and look stedfastly... | |
| 1839 - 430 trang
...we differ is worth contending about. •Men," says a celebrated author, 'will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it ! Anything but live for it." Patience, application and courage overcome all difficulties. JOS J99 THE CASKET. EDITED BY EB KIL.LEY... | |
| 1847 - 648 trang
...called pleasure, but the harvest tj reaped in age by pain. RELIGION. — Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it — anything but live for it. CONTRAST. — The death of Judas is as strong a confirmation of Christianity as the life ot Paul. ILLUSTRATIONS.... | |
| Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 trang
...grief can shed, I ~ A Tr But those C* far more than we can give ! .**• Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it — ^anything but live for it. Ministers should preach to their congregations, and not merely before them. H Knowledge and wisdom,... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 trang
...our hands, this, this is the difficulty. — Baxter. RELIGION. — Men will wrangle for religion ; write for it ; fight for it ; die for it ; anything but live for it. — Colton. RELIGION. — The greatest actions, when they are not animated by religion, have no other... | |
| London metrop. tabernacle - 1866 - 588 trang
...intrusiveness, and I know not what. Colton, in his day, said that men would wrangle for religion ; write for it ; fight for it ; die for it ; anything but — live for it : and we may now add, anything but discourse upon it to their friends and acquaintances. May a revival... | |
| 1866 - 684 trang
...for intrusiveness, and I know not what. Colton, in his day, said that men would wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it ; anything but — live for it : and we may now add, anything but discourse upon it to their friends and acquaintances. May a revival... | |
| 1869 - 700 trang
...argumentative character ; and one of the very best is one of the first I find. "Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything— but live for it." Does not the following tell the story of " Stonewall " Jackson's life and success? "Secrecy of design,... | |
| 1870 - 300 trang
...his discourse into too many heads, will hardly find ears for them all. Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but— live for it. It is observable that in general those who have least religion to lose are most ready to thrust it... | |
| 1881 - 946 trang
...of the world. The stone almost finished weighs two hundred and thirty MEN will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it ; die for it ; anything but — live for it. carats but it is intended to reduce its weight to son, " that Plato had read the inscription on the... | |
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