Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...every man must wage against these temptations is a hard one, but it is only by this battle and the victory, that we may come in touch with the Living God. One of the most common of these temptations is impurity, in mind, body or imagination. It is a sin whose wages are death to success, to self-respect, to reputation, death to mind and body...
...Peabody believes that Christ taught the sanctity of family life and, in general the wrong of divorce. He did not condemn the possession of riches and property and He was not a communist; He saw in wealth no sin, but a grave, and it might be, a sacred responsibility...
...succeeded; he called them to suffer and to be more patient and self-renouncing because they had suffered; he called them to forgive and be more ready to forgive again. In close and terrible temptations it is not victory alone, not the mere overcoming of the powers of sin that he asks, but he holds before them the lofty ideal that beyond and from the victories in life there shall be the new strength, the new power and the new sympathy in which alone "we are more than conquerors through Christ that loved...
...Peabody spoke of the need today of aggressiveness in our religious life. Many men adopt a negative view of religion, avoiding evil and slipping through their daily existence in a neutral way. This is better than positive sin, no doubt, but it is a poor way of living. The need of good men in the world is greater now than ever before, and surely they ought to be found in such an institution as this where men come to develop and broaden their ideas and their field of usefulness...
...resemblance, we see that duty, however simple, is a religious act; for a failure to perform it involves the suffering of innocent persons. Again, duty is universal; that is, in following it we conform to a universal law, and any omission of it must be regarded as a sin. Here the similarity to religion and its laws is too clear to demand explanation. Finally, duty is always authoritative. It is the call of the whole world upon the individual, and for this reason it can never be avoided without some resulting misfortune. This call of duty issues from...