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Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

Book by Mark Hopkins · 3 quotes · Als, Brutes, Capable

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Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851 Quotes

“Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.”

“The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surface of life that is from the central force of principle within, as the beauty on the cheek of health is from the central force at the heart.”

“Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a child-like confidence, and then, either she has no strength, and has no right to be, or she has a strength that is infinite. Then and thus, will she stretch out the rod over the seas of difficulty that lie before her, and the waters shall divide, and she shall pass through, and sing the song of deliverance.”