Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits

but now, influenced partly by the trouble with the corsair, partly by a sense of his own unfitness for an official position, and partly by the acquired momentum of his productive impulse, he determined to devote himself to religious writing, and thus his authorship entered upon its second phase.

To the first half of this period belong Edifying Discourses, 1847, The Works of Love, 1848, and Christian Discourses, 1848.

Though each religious discourse is complete in itself, individual themes are logically connected, and the methodical and systematic advance so noticeably characteristic of the ascetic productions finds its counterpart also here, in a gradual approach to more and more concrete conceptions.

and to an increasingly severe judgment of the actual contemporary life in the light of the ideals delineated edifying discourses deals in a first section with the unity of the ethical ideal that the heart can be clean only when it has a single

aim

the and that this singleness of aim is possible only to one who chooses the good and actual only when he chooses the good in truth in a second section with the lessons to be learned from the lilies of the field and the birds of the air contentment with our common humanity, an appreciation of its glory, and an understanding of its blessedness, which consists in first seeking the kingdom of God.

but now, influenced partly by the trouble with the corsair, partly by a sense of his own unfitness for an official position, and partly by the acquired momentum of his productive impulse, he determined to devote himself to religious writing, and thus his authorship entered upon its second phase.

To the first half of this period belong Edifying Discourses, 1847, The Works of Love, 1848, and Christian Discourses, 1848.

Though each religious discourse is complete in itself, individual themes are logically connected, and the methodical and systematic advance so noticeably characteristic of the ascetic productions finds its counterpart also here, in a gradual approach to more and more concrete conceptions.

and to an increasingly severe judgment of the actual contemporary life in the light of the ideals delineated edifying discourses deals in a first section with the unity of the ethical ideal that the heart can be clean only when it has a single

aim

the and that this singleness of aim is possible only to one who chooses the good and actual only when he chooses the good in truth in a second section with the lessons to be learned from the lilies of the field and the birds of the air contentment with our common humanity, an appreciation of its glory, and an understanding of its blessedness, which consists in first seeking the kingdom of God.

but now, influenced partly by the trouble with the corsair, partly by a sense of his own unfitness for an official position, and partly by the acquired momentum of his productive impulse, he determined to devote himself to religious writing, and thus his authorship entered upon its second phase.

To the first half of this period belong Edifying Discourses, 1847, The Works of Love, 1848, and Christian Discourses, 1848.

Though each religious discourse is complete in itself, individual themes are logically connected, and the methodical and systematic advance so noticeably characteristic of the ascetic productions finds its counterpart also here, in a gradual approach to more and more concrete conceptions.

and to an increasingly severe judgment of the actual contemporary life in the light of the ideals delineated edifying discourses deals in a first section with the unity of the ethical ideal that the heart can be clean only when it has a single

aim

the and that this singleness of aim is possible only to one who chooses the good and actual only when he chooses the good in truth in a second section with the lessons to be learned from the lilies of the field and the birds of the air contentment with our common humanity, an appreciation of its glory, and an understanding of its blessedness, which consists in first seeking the kingdom of God.

But now, influenced partly by the trouble with the Corsair, partly by a sense of his own unfitness for an official position, and partly by the acquired momentum of his productive impulse, he determined to devote himself to religious writing, and thus his authorship entered upon its second phase.

To the first half of this period belong Edifying Discourses, 1847, The Works of Love, 1848, and Christian Discourses, 1848.

Though each religious discourse is complete in itself, the individual themes are logically connected, and the methodical and systematic advance, so noticeably characteristic of the ascetic productions, finds its counterpart also here, in a gradual approach to more and more concrete conceptions, and to an increasingly severe judgment of the actual contemporary life in the light of the ideals delineated.

Edifying Discourses deals in a first section with the unity of the ethical ideal.

Quote, That the heart can be clean only when it has a single aim.

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