“Father, show me how to praise Thee When I seek Thy courts to-day; Guide me by Thy love, and raise me -- Let me feel the words I say. Bless me on this hallowed morning, Bid my soul to Thee draw near; Teach me, and my heart shall listen -- Speak, Lord, and Thy child shall hear.” FeelsHeartChildrenSoulShowsFatherSpeakLordTeachMorningMy HeartDrawsLet MePraiseRaisesCourtGuidesMy SoulTheeBlessShow MeGuide Me Author:Sarah Doudney
“When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this idea. The clashing of atoms by blind chance has nothing in it fit to raise our conceptions, or to elevate the mind. But the regular structure of a vast system of beings, produced by creating power, and governed by the best laws which perfect wisdom and goodness could contrive, is a spectacle which elevates the understanding, and fills the soul with devout admiration.” WorldMindIdeasSoulLawUniverseUnderstandingChancePerfectFitGoodnessCreatingRaisesBlindStructureAdmirationConceptionAtomsContemplatingFortuitous Book:Philosophical works Source: Philosophical works
“In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.” MenBelieveMaySoulHelpingLightEyeOrderHouseHeavenThousandTenAll ThingsUniversalDifficultyRaisesPatternsEvery ManFixedInjuredRight DirectionImitating Author:Plato
“For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.” SoulBodyLightEyeLanguagePureDifficultyRaisesCloudsHeavySensualityVirtuousFlashLightningVaporDartsDank Author:Plutarch
“Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.” KnowsMindHeartMaySoulWholeHappensLastsFacesFoundSpeakBeautyFiguresHumilityRaisesCreatorGloriousCharmProportionApologyVirtuousModestyOur ThoughtsSpeaks OutEmbellishment Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author