Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...confound wishing and willing, but wishing ends in nothing and willing ends in achievement. Because often wishing is not changed into willing there result so many broken vows and half-carried-out resolutions. Our vows are not serious enough; we are more lenient with ourselves than with others, and accept excuses for out broken resolutions that would never be accepted by others. From the Christian point of view a promise and an oath are identical, and a broken resolution and a broken promise are the same morally. The worst aspect of these broken resolutions is that they weaken the will...
...office came at the most critical period in the history of the College, and his service was effectual in placing it on a firm foundation. His resignation in 1654 was the result of a dispute with the stricter Puritans of the colony over church doctrines which Dunster refused to accept. After his resignation he was pastor of a church in Scituate, Mass., until his death in 1659. He was buried, at his own request, in the churchyard of the First Church, Cambridge, opposite the Johnston Gate...
...from a list published in the Philosophical pamphlet. According to the plan recently adopted and in effect for the current year, four philosophical courses will still be required; but the list of additional courses is to be considerably amplified, and the Chairman of the Division may, at his discretion, accept courses not in the list when they prove to be closely related to the candidate's philosophical studies...
When the Catholics, after the final separation and complete confiscation of all church property, refused to accept the "associations cultuelles", the government was compelled to temporarily restore the churches. What the outcome of it will be no one at present...
...revenues should all be managed by the government. The priests were expected to defray all the expenses of the property out of the meagre allowance granted them by the state. None of the priests would submit to this agreement, but stood by the Pope in his refusal to accept it. In consequence of this action all the church officials of France were expelled from their offices and the seminaries and church schools were closed...