"By the way" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and by reason would satisfy themselves whether they are elected, so that they may be assured whereon they stand. But desist from this, at once; it is a thing that cannot be apprehended (grasped). But if you will be assured, you must reach it by the way which St. Peter here strikes out for you. If you choose another for yourself, you have failed already, and your own experience must teach you so. If faith is properly exercised and tried, then are you ...
— The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained • Martin Luther
... parents, and even making the awful confession that he does not consider the Christian religion itself as a thing "to be taken on trust," nor a Christian by mere tradition so valuable a member of society as "one who has prudently doubted, and by the way of examination has arrived at conviction, or at least striven to arrive." Boyish scepticism of the superficial sort is a common phenomenon enough, but the Lessing variety of it seems to us sufficiently rare in a youth of twenty. What strikes us mainly in the letters of these ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... clerk? The very best sort; a most estimable fellow,—one of a thousand. By the way, did you tell him how you became interested in ...
— Ester Ried Yet Speaking • Isabella Alden
... ever be able to express my admiration to others in motley imagery or quaint allusion, till the light of his genius shone into my soul, like the sun's rays glittering in the puddles of the road. I was at that time dumb, inarticulate, helpless, like a worm by the way-side, crushed, bleeding, lifeless; but now, bursting from the deadly bands that ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various
... 'By the way, I have always thought all that was said about the anti-religious tendency of a classical education to be old wives' tales. But their puzzles about Virgil's notions of heaven and virtue, and his gracefully-described ...
— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
|
