Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Christ praised the centurion because it was this soldierly quality that he wanted his disciples to have - the power to obey, and growing out of that, the power to command. We need to follow the centurion's example today. The scholar has first to learn to obey, to conform to rigid discipline, before he reaches the point where he is qualified to choose his own course of study. Obedience is the first lesson which the business man has to learn. In the moral world, training and discipline are absolutely necessary to the man who would withstand sudden temptation. He must...
...jeopardize the chances of victory by his own private conduct. The principle at stake is one, the justice of which every fair minded person will admit. A man owes it to the University he represents to the players who are conscientious in their work, and to himself that he obey, not only to the letter but to the spirit, the regulations which are supposed to govern him. If he is not willing to do this he has no business on the team, either as a regular or a substitute, no matter how valuable he may be in his place...
...find this "nest", this home in the universe? Through the faculties given us we must realize that, created by Nature, we are in accord with Nature. We must obey the laws of the world, laws by which we are built up to higher conditions; for in obedience to them the soul of man can gather all the outside influences which surround it into a soul which shall be beautiful with a beauty like that of the flower, a beauty direct from...
...absurd, for it violates the very first principle of logic. But when we come to spiritual facts, we cannot measure them by physical laws. The law of the Conservation of Energy does not apply with regard to honor and fidelity and patriotism. Neither does anything that lives or grows obey this inflexible law. The physiologist's first principle is that the body dies in decaying partially at every instant. At every stage of its growth every organism not only is, but is passing away from what is. Moreover, nothing can exist in only itself. Its purpose is ministry...
...merely earthly love, the mother or father, but in extremity. souls need a greater personality than this The friendship of Christ furnishes the greatest power for making men approach perfection. In Christ men may lose themselves and feel that the command to be perfect is no longer hard to obey. We may justify ourselves by faith in a great Friend...