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Our first care is to get into the right way, and then so to run that 'the devil, who is light of foot, may not overtake and trip us up. Running to heaven does not prevent the true, the real enjoyment of earthly blessings, but sanctifies and heightens them. The great impetus in our course is love to the prize to Christ, to heaven; 'having our affections set upon things above. Looking unto Jesus.
The unknown always engrosses the greater part of the field of vision, and the awe of infinity sanctifies both the study and the dream.
At the same time, the abbot of Doncaster sued up the payment of certain moneys, which the earl, whose revenue ran a losing race with his hospitality, had borrowed at sundry times of the said abbot: for the abbots and the bishops were the chief usurers of those days, and, as the end sanctifies the means, were not in the least scrupulous of employing what would have been extortion in the profane, to accomplish the pious purpose of bringing a blessing on the land by rescuing it from the frail hold of carnal and temporal into the firmer grasp of ghostly and spiritual possessors.
TEMPTATIONS REMOVED. Marriage sanctifies a home, while adultery and libertinism produce unrest, distrust and misery. It must be remembered that a married man can practice the most absolute continence and enjoy a far better state of health than the licentious man. The comforts of companionship develop purity and give rest to the soul.
The vicar read it with knitted brow. "You did right, my dear sister," he said; "it might defeat all our plans. Far better commit it to the flames. Let me think will you permit me to take possession of the letter? good may result from it; the end, as you know, my dear lady, sanctifies the means."
"Can a little coquetry in a good cause be such a heinous offence?" persisted I. I knew that I was wrong all the time; but I delighted in seeing how right she was. No she would not allow her mind to be cheated by female sophistry; nor yet by the male casuistry of, "the end sanctifies the means."
It makes the impure to be pure, the silent eloquent; it purifies and sanctifies those made captive by carnal desires; it makes the ignorant wise. The fifth spirit is the Holy Spirit. This Holy Spirit is the mediator between God and His creatures. It is like a mirror facing the sun.
By dint of nervous headache, Caroline conceives an exceedingly ingenious plan: this plan consists in using the conjugal bliss of the opposite neighbors as a tonic to stimulate Adolphe. The idea is not without depravity, but then Caroline's intention sanctifies the means! "Adolphe," she says, "we have a neighbor opposite, the loveliest woman, a brunette " "Oh, yes," returns Adolphe, "I know her.
Is not this conception, that the motive of reverence and love to Him ennobles and sanctifies every deed, the very fundamental principle of Christian morality? All things are sanctified when they are done for His sake.
It gradually hardens the moral faculties, renders obtuse the perception of right and wrong in human actions, weighs everything in the balances of worldly policy, and ends most generally, in the practical adoption of the vile maxim, "that the end sanctifies the means."
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