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• If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely pure Spirit for those who are worldly and selfish, licentious and cruel, ambitious and animal! But with this great loathing is a great pity. And the pity conquers the loathing, appeases it, satisfies it, is reconciled with it, only as it redeems the sinner from his loathsomeness, lifts him up from his degradation, brings him to truth and purity, to love and righteousness; for only thus is he or can he be brought to God.

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  Selfish, Animal, Ambitious

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• Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

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  Reason, Conclusion

  Lyman Abbott (1872). “Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish”, p.9

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• We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a just and righteous God, and demands righteousness of his children, and demands nothing else. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is our Father. It is Israel who, in bringing us the divine law, has laid the foundation of liberty.

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  Children, Father, Flames

  "Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott".

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• Commerce is a form of warfare.

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  Warfare, Form, Commerce

  Lyman Abbott (1899). “The Life that Really is”

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• I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

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  Horse, Cows, Harness

  Lyman Abbott (1872). “Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish”, p.16

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• Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

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  Future, Past, Batteries

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• I firmly believe that the method which sets theological theories against scientifically ascertained facts, is fatal to the current theology and injurious to the spirit of religion; and that the method which frankly recognizes the facts of life, and appreciates the spirit of the scientists whose patient and assiduous endeavor has brought those facts to light, will commend the spirit of religion to the new generation, and will benefit--not impair--theology as a science, by compelling its reconstruction.

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  Believe, Light, Appreciate

  Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.37, Cambridge University Press

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• It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

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  Pity, Easy

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• A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature.

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  Miracle, Process

  Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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• You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.

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  Mother, World, Sacred

  Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1898). “The Outlook”

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• If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

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  Ambition, Mean, Golden

  Lyman Abbott (1900). “Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott”

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• All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."

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  Christian, Easter, Charity

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• Every soul is a battlefield.

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  Soul, Battlefields

  Lyman Abbott (1900). “Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott”

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• Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.

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  Art, Government, Essence

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• Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.

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  Law, Together, Moral

  Lyman Abbott (1900). “Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott”

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• Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel, that life without lying is an impossibility, at least don't lie about the amount of pain likely to result from a surgical procedure, or about the taste of some medicine. If you know that something to be done will hurt, say so; if a mixture to be swallowed is unpleasant, say so. If you deceive a child once in such matters, do not imagine that it will trust you again. You do not deserve trust, and you will not get it.

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  Hurt, Children, Pain

  Lyman Abbott (1896). “The House and Home: A Practical Book”

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• It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

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  Divine, Human Experience, Humans

  Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

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• Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.

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  Money, Care, Pay

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• If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

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  Men, Age, Grows

  Lyman Abbott (1900). “Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott”

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• I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

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  Flower, Hoe, Dirt

  Lyman Abbott (1872). “Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish”, p.16

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• Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

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  Men, Fellow Man, Slavery

  Lyman Abbott (1899). “The Life that Really is”

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• The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

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  Men, Essence, Transcendentalism

  Lyman Abbott (1872). “Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish”, p.9

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• Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern.

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  Artist, Unity, Infinite

  Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1901). “The Outlook”

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• This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.

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  Mean, Progress, Development

  Lyman Abbott (1899). “The Life that Really is”

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• In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

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  New York, Space, Rude

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