Word: attainable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...World can be as easily as briefly stated: there is none. A widely read German history of civilization says this about American scholarship: American universities are hardly more than ordinary schools in Germany. It is true they receive large sums of money from rich men; but they cannot attain to anything, because the institutions either remain under the control of the Church, or the professors are appointed on account of their political or personal connections, not on account of their knowledge. The professors therefore have, naturally, more interest in money making than in the advancement of science. Not a single...
...affinity to two things, to God and to the brute. It is this discord between two natures which we must strive to resolve into a perfect unity with God himself. We must give up the things of this earth and all self-seeking purposes, if we are to attain this unity. As Jesus has said, "He that loseth his life shall find it," and in this paradox is the solution of the problem. But the bare knowledge of this is not the way of salvation. By acts and faith alone can we attain the salvation of that which is most...
...Frothingham of Boston, preached in Appleton Chapel last night, taking as his text the thirty seventh verse of the eighth chapter of Romans: In all these things we are more than conquerers.." To overcome temptations, to surmount obstacles, to be the conqueror in life's battle is seemingly to attain supreme success. And there is a strange sound in the word of Paul, be ye "more than conquerors." And yet in the history of the world's great battles he learns that there is, after all, something beyond conquest. A great military here is messured not merely by the completeness...
...that served as in the case of Phillips Brooks to hide the deep reserve of his inner nature. Dr. Everett was not a great administrator nor an organizer of especial ability, but it was in his power to reach heights of thought and inspiration to which ordinary men cannot attain. The ease with which he treated the most profound subjects showed how thoroughly he was at home where others scarcely dared to come...
...growing crops, and they were not slow to grasp the close analogy between the physical and the spiritual. They realized fully that just as real hunger is essential to a right appreciation of God's bounty, so a longing for spiritual truth must exist, if we wish to attain the highest things of this world...