Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...live thus negatively. we must do something If we continually encourage the higher parts of our nature, we must of necessity put under the lower part. The growth of one means the destruction of the other It is all rational, and psychological. A man cannot have two distinct conscious-nesses at the same time. If he retains one he must lose the other, and just so as the new man can only be put on as the old is taken off. "If ye walk in the spirit ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh...
...that comes near to us, and one about which we must learn the truth if it be possible. Truth upon the matter must come to us largely by faith. We can give no mathematical proof of the existence of God, but still we are sure of it. We are conscious of it just as we are of our own existence. What we must do is to struggle against the spirit of the age which is inclined to agnosticism. The spirit of the age is constantly changing and it is more than probable that at no time is it headed...
...come times in the lives of all classes and races of men when they hear with perfect distinctness, the command "be ye perfect," It comes in the time of solitude when men are apt to be thinking of self and urges them to new endeavor. Moreover men are perfectly conscious that until they try to be better they have neglected the first essential to the truest type of life. Though the command is easy to hear it is often very difficult to obey. The strength of the passions is constantly at work to keep a man where...
...Often we see some one standing out boldly for a principle and we admire him. Later we find that he wants praise for what he has done and our admiration ceases. We may find that the main object in the man's mind was praise. Such a man is conscious most of all of what...
Some one may urge here that consciousness is necessary. No man can use power unless he is conscious that he has it. This is true. Individuality and personality are necessary but they are very different from that self-consciousness which leads a man to think primarily of his own virtues. Peter. Paul and John may have been self-conscious before Christ came, but when He came His mightier personality transformed them. They did not lose their own personalities; they simply forgot everything except the message of this greater Power...