 | Walter J. Burghardt - 1998 - 164 páginas
...to say I would go to church no more. . . . He had lived in vain. He had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had...commended, or cheated, or chagrined. If he had ever lived or acted, we were none the wiser for it. The capital secret of his profession, namely, to convert life... | |
 | Joan W. Goodwin - 1998 - 436 páginas
...church no more." The snow falling outside the window was more real than the preacher in the pulpit. "If he had ever lived and acted, we were none the wiser for it." The true preacher should deal out his own life to the people, "life passed through the fire of thought."... | |
 | Gustaaf Van Cromphout - 1999 - 196 páginas
...who, as far as one could tell from his sermons, had lived in vain. He had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined. . . . This man had ploughed, and planted, and talked, and bought, and sold; he had read books; he had... | |
 | John P. Miller - 2000 - 188 páginas
...can be applied equally well to teachers: He had lived in vain. He had not one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had been commanded, or cheated, or chagrined. If he had ever lived and acted, we were none the wiser for it.... | |
 | Jay Cormier - 2000 - 166 páginas
...behind him into the beautiful meteor of snow. He had lived in vain. He had not one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had...and acted, we were none the wiser for it. ... The true preacher can be known by this , that he deals out to the people his life — life passed through... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 2000 - 324 páginas
...in this way. Emerson bemoaned a preacher he had heard who "had no word intimating that he had ever laughed or wept, was married or in love, had been commended, or cheated or chagrined. . . . The capital secret of his profession, namely, to convert life into truth, he had not yet learned... | |
 | Dean Grodzins - 2002 - 664 páginas
...behind him, into the beautiful meteor of snow. He had lived in vain. He had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined. The capital secret of his profession, namely, to convert life into truth, he had not learned."126 When... | |
 | Lisa Couturier - 2005 - 184 páginas
...described in The Divinity School Address: "He had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept,... had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined. If he...it. The capital secret of his profession, namely, to con- ( 17 vert life into truth, he had not learned." Was this apparently fixed and unassailable thinking... | |
 | Lundin - 2007 - 273 páginas
...him, into the beautiful meteor of the snow. He had lived in vain. He had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had...profession, namely, to convert life into truth, he had not learned.30 He speaks here largely as a suffering member of the congregation, though in fact he had... | |
 | George McKenna - 2007 - 454 páginas
...behind him, into the beautiful meteor of the snow. He had lived in vain. He had no word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had...profession, namely, to convert life into truth, he had not learned."107 Repelled by this kind of spiritual torpor, the transcendentalists sought to bring awe... | |
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A snowstorm was falling around us. The snow-storm was real ; the preacher merely spectral ; and the eye felt the sad contrast in looking at him, and then out of the window behind him, into the beautiful meteor of the snow. He had lived in vain. He had... 
