Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simile or a parable may be pushed beyond its proper meaning, and hence one must not carry it too far. All I want to point out is that many of the important decisions in life are by no means evidently momentous at the time. The right and wrong of the choice may be clear, but not the seriousness of the consequences involved; because they affect not so much the outward career of the actor as his own personal character, and the result may not be manifest for a long time...
...caused a deviation of the compass in the cock-pit; a result they had not foreseen. Of course no moral was involved in this case, but it may illustrate what I mean. The compass is to the mariner what conscience is to a man. A deviation involves a wrong course. That is the significance in our text of the eye being single and whole body full of light...
...fault; recognized by the man as such, which he thoroughly regrets and resolves not to commit again; the latter an excused fault, condoned by himself, and therefore likely to be repeated. Such a fault may be small, but small faults gradually dim the keenness of discrimination between right' and wrong. Well did the old testament singer exclaim, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines...
...fault; recognized by the man as such, which he thoroughly regrets and resolves not to commit again; the latter an excused fault, condoned by himself, and therefore likely to be repeated. Such a fault may be small, but small faults gradually dim the keenness of discrimination between right' and wrong. Well did the old testament singer exclaim, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines...
...attempt in excuse conduct less than the best tends in so far to dull the vision so every action that is done because a clear light shows that it is the right thing to do lends to increase the light, to sharpen the audience of perception between right and wrong, and thereby to strongthen character...