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A solemn sense comes over him that this cannot endure. The disciples childishly marvel at the splendid Temple, but its gorgeousness strikes him as earthly, sensuous, perishable, and he says, "There shall not one stone be left upon another." His indignation rises and seeks expression in some outward act which shall blaze upon the dull multitude the sense of their sinful state.
And he not only equalled the ancients in stucco-work, but also equalled the best modern craftsmen in the whole field of painting, displaying all the excellence that could possibly be desired in a human intellect that seeks, in solving the difficulties of that art, to achieve beauty, grace, charm, and delicacy with colouring and with every other kind of ornament.
It is not branches of knowledge such as poetry and anatomy, but errors that is to say, men that fight with one another. When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself hence the war with what he does not understand.
Where dost thou chiefly lie hidden, O most elect treasure! and where shall thirsting souls discover thee? There everyone who asks receiveth thee, and everyone who seeks finds thee, and to everyone that knocketh boldly it is speedily opened.
It has been well said that "everything can be found in Plato," and therefore one who seeks for the ancient Grecian ideas concerning Reincarnation, and the problems of the soul, may find that which he seeks in the writings of the old sage and philosopher.
It is closely connected with that activity of mind which seeks for knowledge on every subject that comes within its reach, and which is ever on the watch to make its knowledge more correct and more extensive. VIII. The Desire of Moral Improvement.
Still less are we bound to bring out from this secret chamber the dusty record of our ancestry. 'Let the dead past bury its dead. George Tryon loves you for yourself alone; it is not your ancestors that he seeks to marry." "But would he marry me if he knew?" she persisted. Warwick paused for reflection.
Any man who seeks to make his words a true picture of his emotions must be aware that few harder precepts have ever been given than this brief one of the Apostle's, 'Let love be without hypocrisy. But the place where this exhortation comes in the apostolic sequence here may suggest to us the discipline through which obedience to it is made possible.
Free from self-will, he is free from sorrow, too, for sorrow comes from the fight of self-will against the divine will, through the correcting stress of the divine will, which seeks to counteract the evil wrought by disobedience. When the conflict with the divine will ceases, then sorrow ceases, and he who has grown into obedience, thereby enters into joy.
We pass at once we glance not around us at the chamber of death at the broken heart of Lester at the two-fold agony of his surviving child the agony which mourns and yet seeks to console another the mixed emotions of Walter, in which, an unsleeping eagerness to learn the fearful all formed the main part the solitary cell and solitary heart of the convicted we glance not at these; we pass at once to the evening in which Aram again saw Walter Lester, and for the last time.