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"Whoso casteth a stone at the birds, frayeth them away; and he that upbraideth his friend, breaketh friendship.
O what mists, what mountains, what clouds, what darkness, what objections, what false apprehensions of God, of Christ, of grace, of the word, and of the soul's condition, doth he now lay before it, and haunt it with! whereby he dejecteth, casteth down, daunteth, distresseth, and almost driveth it quite into despair.
"And that is to be with the one human being that is left for me to love oh, really love you know what I mean in the world." I could only put my hand on her fair young head and say: "My dear, my dear, you know I love you." "That is why I'm not afraid to speak. Perfect love casteth out fear " I pushed back her hair. "What is it that you want me to do, Betty?" I asked.
These troublesome guests were busiest in the night season, haunting his mind with strange pictures of disasters, and with suggestions touching the arbitrary power of God, whom he feared when the thought of him was present, but did not love. "Whom He will He setteth up, and whom He will He casteth down."
For he deemeth and aviseth, and casteth to go eastward, and is beguiled in his doom, and goeth westward. And blindness over-turneth the virtue of affection and desire. For if men proffer the blind a silver penny and a copper to choose the better, he desireth to choose the silver penny, but he chooseth the copper.
Not a feather fluttered, not an eyelid quivered; truly it was the perfect love that casteth out fear. My guide went on up to the top of Greylock; I turned back to pursue my search. Eastward was my next trip, down toward the brook that made a valley between Greylock and Ragged Mountain. My path was under the edge of the woods that fringed a mountain stream.
Is it a quality to inspire the soul with a rational worship, or to fill it with a horror which casteth out love? Another argument to show the infinite ill-desert of some men, is drawn from the scientia media Dei.
It is the same with all our interests. We care most about extremes of importance and of unimportance; but extremes of importance are tainted with fear, and a very imperfect fear casteth out love. Extremes of unimportance cannot hurt us, therefore we are well disposed towards them; the means may come to do so, therefore we do not love them.
And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb person spake, and the people marvelled. But some of them said, He casteth out devils by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. But others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven. But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and a house against a house, falleth.
Not that I believe my father did this consciously; still, he so greatly hated scolding that I dare say we might often have got off scot-free when we really deserved reproof had not my mother undertaken the onus of scolding us herself. We therefore naturally feared her more than my father, and fearing more we loved less. For as love casteth out fear, so fear love.
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