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The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.
Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)
Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.
Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)
A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously, the clearness of our mental vision.
Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)
The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried.
Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)
Depend upon it, my younger brethren, the bright, self-sacrificing enthusiasms of early manhood are among the most precious things in the whole course of human life.
Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)
Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow-men, but also without fear of it.
Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)
What we do upon a great occasion will probably depend upon what we already are; what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline, under the grace of Christ, or of the absence of it.
Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)
As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from the Eternal Reason, and ought, when we apprehend it, to guide us upwards to Him.
Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)
It is only Jesus Christ who has thrown light on life and immortality through the Gospel; and because He has done so, and has enabled us by His Atoning Death and Intercession to make the most of this discovery, His Gospel is, for all who will, a power of God unto salvation.
Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)
If Christianity has really come from heaven, it must renew the whole life of man; it must govern the life of nations no less than that of individuals; it must control a Christian when acting in his public and political capacity as completely as when he is engaged in the duties which belong to him as a member of a family circle.
Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)
Resignation,—not to a whirlwind of inexorable forces, not to a brutal fate or destiny, not to powers who cannot see or hear or feel, but to One Who lives forever, and Who loves us well, and Who has given us all that we have, ay, life itself, that we may at His bidding freely give it back to Him.
Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)
The Divine Christ has died on the Cross a Victim for the sins of the world: what is He doing now? Did His redemptive love exhaust itself in the days of His flesh? The past has been forgiven; but has any provision been made for the future? Have we been reconciled to God by the death of His Son, but is there no salvation through His risen life?
Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)
Worship is the earthly act by which we most distinctly recognize our personal immortality: men who think that they will be extinct a few years hence do not pray. In worship we spread out our insignificant life, which yet is the work of the Creator's hands, and the purchase of the Redeemer's Blood, before the Eternal and All-Merciful, that we may learn the manners of a higher sphere, and fit ourselves for companionship with saints and angels, and for the everlasting sight of the face of God.
Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford: Second Series (1887)