The Valley of Decision: A Plea for Wholeness in Thought and LifeLongmans, Green and Company, 1917 - 391 pages |
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Page 54 - In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
Page 389 - In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Page 51 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 75 - The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: and he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits ? And he said, This will I do : I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 238 - All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Page 12 - For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's.
Page 282 - Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
Page 294 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 75 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided ? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Page 2 - Man is not God but hath God's end to serve, A master to obey, a course to take, Somewhat to cast off, somewhat to become ? Grant this, then man must pass from old to new, From vain to real, from mistake to fact, From what once seemed good, to what now proves best. How could man have progression otherwise ? Before the point was mooted "What is God ?" No savage man inquired "What am myself?" Much less replied, "First, last, and best of things.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Valley of Decision: A Plea for Wholeness in Thought and Life |
| Author | Edward Arthur Burroughs |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green and Company, 1917 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Apr 2006 |
| Length | 391 pages |
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