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“It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.”

Quote by Hugh Reginald Haweis

Book:Speech in Season

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Speech in Season

This book compiles a selection of speeches that have been delivered on a range of topics and for diverse audiences, showcasing the author's eloquence and insight across different settings. more

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Hugh Reginald Haweis

British writer, born on April 3, 1838, and died on January 29, 1901. Known for his poetry, prose, and theological works, he was renowned for his literary and religious thoughts. more

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Book:Speech in Season

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“Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas! you might not give your superfluities, but "bestow all your goods to feed the poor;" you might even "give your body to be burned" for them, and yet be utterly destitute of charity, if self-seeking, self-pleasing or self-ends guide you; and guide you they must, until the love of God be by the Holy Ghost shed abroad in your heart.”

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“Feeling comes before reflection.”

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“Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in, and the more we live and know of our own souls and of spiritual experience generally, the more we shall be convinced that we have to do with one who is good and just.”

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Book:Speech in Season

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“It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever unuttered and unutterable; it feeds that deep, ineradicable instinct within us of which all art is only the reverberated echo, that craving to express, through the medium of the senses, the spiritual and eternal realities which underlie them.”

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“The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly imagine the sacred bridge of liberty kept by a more stalwart trio than Schubert the Armorer, Chopin the Refiner, and Liszt the Thunderer.”

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Book:Music and morals

Source: Music and morals

“The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.”

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Book:Music and morals

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“To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.”

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Book:Speech in Season

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“Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.”

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Book:Speech in Season

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“Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve to convey to others our musical expressions. Words will often pave the way for the more subtle operations of music, and unlock the treasures which sound alone can rifle, and hence the eternal popularity of song.”

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Book:Music and morals

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