Word: sinners
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...peculiar parables are much more numerous and striking. Dr. King divides the parables, of which there are 18, into two groups: the parables of grace and the parables of warning. In the passages of grace God is represented as kind and forgiving, rejoicing in the repentance of the sinner...
Another reason for maintaing this ignorance is that the whole beauty of life hangs upon it. There is a fascination about the sinner who has repented but he does not appeal to us as a little child appeals to us. The life which has been spotted with evil can never be as fair as it might have been...
...mere combination of grass, a whiff of vapor; but it is not also far more? What is to be said of its beauty, of the mystery surrounding its growth? The cross itself is but a couple of beams; but does this tell of it as a refuge for the sinner, as a triumphant emblem of faith? Surely this faith is the real thing, worth having, not the power to analyze that of others. Science has its place, but it has also its limitations. For one thing, the spiritual life cannot be weighed or measured by science; the pure in heart...