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Updated: May 24, 2025
The Gospel is to aggrandize Christ and the mercy of God. It holds out to men eternal gifts that are not gifts of our own manufacture. What right have we to receive praise and glory for gifts that are not of our own making? No wonder that God in His special grace subjects the ministers of the Gospel to all kinds of afflictions, otherwise they could not cope with this ugly beast called vainglory.
And how quietly and simply he has done it, without parade or pomp or vainglory. Of all those who, with every means at their disposal, have tried to conquer Lee, he is the only one who has in any manner succeeded. He has been able to hold him fettered while Sherman has swept the Confederacy. And these are the two men who were unknown when the war began.
For do we not see that the wicked man, who in the pride of his power and vainglory is willing to risk punishment to HIMSELF and believes it to be courage must pause before the awful mandate that condemns an equal suffering to those he loves, which he cannot withhold or suffer for?
So proud, I fear, that we should soon fancy that we could do without God and His providence, and were masters of nature and all her secrets. If you and I could make the whole city worship and obey us, by casting ourselves off this cathedral unhurt, would not that make us proud enough? So proud, I fear, that we should end in committing some great folly, or great crime in our conceit and vainglory.
She was simple in her taste, her dress, and her furniture, but choice in her simplicity, having the refinements and delicacies of luxury, but nothing of its ostentation nor its vanity; modest in her air, carriage, and manners, but with a touch of pride, and even a little vainglory. Nothing flattered her more than her intercourse with the great.
If I, as steward of His, see some wise way to invest His money, it is not an occasion for vainglory or thanks from any one simply because I have proved in my administration of the funds He has asked me to use for His glory. I have been thinking of this very plan for some time.
Everything which they in their vainglory regard as 'beneath them' they tread into the dust and we you and I, all who labor with their hands in the service of the state we, in their dull eyes, are beneath them. Mark me, boy!
The lash that was wielded was far-reaching; all the vices of the age irreligion, blasphemy, drunkenness, extravagance, vainglory, loose living fell under its sting. The condemnation was general, and each man looked to see his neighbor wince. The occurrence at the ball last night, he was on that for final theme, was he? There was a slight movement throughout the congregation.
I never in my life said anything merely because I thought it funny; though of course, I have had ordinary human vainglory, and may have thought it funny because I had said it. It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist.
"What a difference in these vines!" exclaimed two gentlemen as they walked past the garden. "Just what every one remarks," said the good-looking vine to herself; and, raising her head very high in the air, she put forth another shoot. Yet, with all her fullness of conceit and vainglory, she grew very impatient for the hour to arrive when her sister would be at leisure to talk with her.
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