The Patriarchal, The Jewish, And The Christian Dispensations, Are Evidently But The Unfolding Of One General Plan. In The First We See The Folded Bud; In The Second The Expanded Leaf; In The Third The Blossom And The Fruit. And Now, How Sublime The Idea Of A Religion Thus Commencing In The Earliest Dawn Of Time; Holding On Its Way Through All The Revolutions Of Kingdoms And The Vicissitudes Of The Race; Receiving New Forms, But Always Identical In Spirit; And, Finally, Expanding And Embracing In One Great Brotherhood The Whole Family Of Man! Who Can Doubt That Such A Religion Was From God?

-Mark Hopkins

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No, There Is Nothing On The Face Of The Earth That Can, For A Moment, Bear A Comparison With Christianity As A Religion For Man. Upon This The Hope Of The Race Hangs. From The Very First, It Took Its Position, As The Pillar Of Fire, To Lead The Race Onward. The Intelligence And Power Of The Race Are With Those Who Have Embraced It; And Now, If This, Instead Of Proving Indeed A Pillar Of Fire From God, Should Be Found But A Delusive Meteor, Then Nothing Will Be Left To The Race But To Go Back To A Darkness That May Be Felt, And To A Worse Than Egyptian Bondage.

Men

Fire

Race

In Christ We See The Strength Of Achievement, And The Strength Of Endurance. He Moved With A Calm Majesty, Like The Sun. The Bloody Sweat, And The Crown Of Thorns, And The Cross, Were Full In His Eyes; But He Was Obedient Unto Death. In His Perfect Self-sacrifice We See The Perfection Of Strength; In The Love That Prompted It We See The Perfection Of Beauty. This Combination Of Self-sacrifice And Love Must Be Commenced In Every Christian; And When It Shall Be In Its Spirit Complete In Him, Then Will He Also Be Perfect In Strength And Beauty.

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Eye

Sacrifice

But For Us There Are Moments, O, How Solemn, When Destiny Trembles In The Balance And The Preponderance Of Either Scale Is By Our Own Choice.

Destiny

Choices

Balance

Guided By His Wisdom, Strong In His Strength, There Maybe For You Struggle And Suffering, The Darkness And The Storm. "the Disciple Is Not Above His Master." There May Be Weeping That Shall Endure For A Night, But Joy Shall Come In The Morning. If The Night Cometh, So Also The Morning, "a Morning Without Clouds," The Morning Of An Eternal Day.

Strong

Morning

Struggle

The Moral Government Of God Is A Movement In A Line Onwards Towards Some Grand Consummation, In Which The Principles, Indeed, Are Ever The Same, But The Developments Are Always New - In Which, Therefore, No Experience Of The Past Can Indicate With Certainty What New Openings Of Truth, What Hew Manifestations Of Goodness, What New Phases Of The Moral Heaven May Appear.

God

Past

Government

Our Prayer And God's Mercy Are Like Two Buckets In A Well; While The One Ascends The Other Descends.

Prayer

Mercy Of God

Grace And Mercy

Everywhere The Tendency Has Been To Separate Religion From Morality, To Set Them In Opposition Even. But A Religion Without Morality Is A Superstition And A Curse; And Anything Like An Adequate And Complete Morality Without Religion Is Impossible. The Only Salvation For Man Is In The Union Of The Two As Christianity Unites Them.

Men

Two

Adequate

Faith Then, In Its Relation To Salvation, Is That Confidence By Which We Accept It As A Free Gift From The Saviour, And Is The Only Possible Way In Which The Gift Of God Could Be Appropriated.

Free Gifts

Way

Salvation

Christianity Is The Greatest Civilizing, Moulding, Uplifting Power On This Globe.

Uplifting

Good Christian

Christianity

Language Is The Picture And Counterpart Of Thought.

Language

Counterparts

The Strength That We Want Is Not A Brute, Unregulated Strength; The Beauty That We Want Is No Mere Surface Beauty; But We Want A Beauty On The Surface Of Life That Is From The Central Force Of Principle Within, As The Beauty On The Cheek Of Health Is From The Central Force At The Heart.

Heart

Principles

Want

Man Has Wants Deeper Than Can Be Supplied By Wealth Or Nature Or Domestic Affections. His Great Relations Are To His God And To Eternity.

Men

Want

Affection

We Are To Regard The Mind, Not As A Piece Of Iron To Be Laid Upon The Anvil And Hammered Into Any Shape, Nor As A Block Of Marble In Which We Are To Find The Statue By Removing The Rubbish, Nor As A Receptacle Into Which Knowledge May Be Poured; But As A Flame That Is To Be Fed, As An Active Being That Must Be Strengthened To Think And To Feel -- And To Dare, To Do, And To Suffer.

Block

Thinking

Flames

To Be Energetic And Firm Where Principle Demands It, And Tolerant In All Else, Is Not Easy. It Is Not Easy To Abhor Wickedness, And Oppose It With Every Energy, And At The Same Time To Have The Meekness And Gentleness Of Christ, Becoming All Things To All Men For The Truth's Sake. The Energy Of Patience, The Most Godlike Of All, Is Not Easy.

The Very Act Of Faith By Which We Receive Christ Is An Act Of The Utter Renunciation Of Self, And All Its Works, As A Ground Of Salvation. It Is Really A Denial Of Self, And A Grounding Of Its Arms In The Last Citadel Into Which It Can Be Driven, And Is, In Its Principle, Inclusive Of Every Subsequent Act Of Self-denial By Which Sin Is Forsaken Or Overcome.

Self

Overcoming

Principles

Remove From The History Of The Past All Those Actions Which Have Either Sprung Directly From The Religious Nature Of Man, Or Been Modified By It, And You Have The History Of Another World And Of Another Race.

Religious

Past

Men

We Say Then, That Christianity Is Adapted To The Intellect, Because Its Spirit Coincides With That Of True Philosophy; Because It Removes The Incubus Of Sensuality And Low Vice; Because Of The Place It Gives To Truth; Because It Demands Free Inquiry; Because Its Mighty Truths And Systems Are Brought Before The Mind In The Same Way As The Truths And Systems Of Nature; Because It Solves Higher Problems Than Nature Can; And Because It Is So Communicated As To Be Adapted To Every Mind.

Philosophy

Giving

Mind

The Infidelity That Springs From The Heart Is Not To Be Reached By A Course Of Lectures On The Evidences Of Christianity; Argument Did Not Cause, And Argument Will Not Remove It.

Spring

Heart

Infidelity

Faith, Then, Generically, Is Confidence In A Personal Being. Specifically, Religious Faith Is Confidence In God, In Every Respect And Office In Which He Reveals Himself. As That Love Of Which God Is The Object Is Religious Love, So That Confidence In Him As A Father, A Moral Governor, A Redeemer, A Sanctifier, In All The Modes Of His Manifestation, By Which We Believe Whatever He Says Because He Says It, And Commit Ourselves And All Our Interests Cheerfully And Entirely Into His Hands, Is Religious Faith.

Religious

Father

Believe

Christianity Alone Inspires And Guides Progress; For The Progress Of Man Is Movement Toward God. And Movement Toward God Wili Ensure A Gradual Unfolding Of All That Exalts And Adorns Man.

Men

Inspire

Progress

All Mental Discipline And Symmetrical Growth Are From Activity Of The Mind Under The Yoke Of The Will Or Personal Power.

Discipline

Growth

Mind

Whatever Capacities There May Be For Enjoyment Or For Suffering In This Strange Being Of Ours, And God Only Knows What They Are, They Will Be Drawn Out Wholly In Accordance With Character.

Character

Suffering

May

Religion Without Morality Is A Superstition And A Curse, And Morality Without Religion Is Impossible.

Superstitions

Ethics

Morality

Nothing But The Cross Of Christ Can So Startle The Spiritual Nature From Its Torpor, As To Make It An Effectual Counterpoise To The Debasing And Sensual Tendencies Of The Race. Favored By Temperament And Education, Individuals May Measurably Escape; But If The Race Is To Triumph In The Conflict Between The Flesh And The Spirit, Between The Lower Propensities And The Higher Nature, They Must, As Constantine Is Said To Have Done, See The Cross, And On It The Motto, "in Hoc Signo Vinces." By This Sign We Conquer.

Spiritual

Race

Sensual

Man Can Have Strength Of Character Only As He Is Capable Of Controlling His Faculties; Of Choosing A Rational End; And, In Its Pursuit, Of Holding Fast To His Integrity Against Al! The Might Of External Nature.

Integrity

Character

Men

Let The Church Come To God In The Strength Of A Perfect Weakness, In The Power Of A Felt Helplessness And A Child-like Confidence, And Then, Either She Has No Strength, And Has No Right To Be, Or She Has A Strength That Is Infinite. Then And Thus, Will She Stretch Out The Rod Over The Seas Of Difficulty That Lie Before Her, And The Waters Shall Divide, And She Shall Pass Through, And Sing The Song Of Deliverance.

Song

Children

Lying

Christianity Excludes Malignity, Subdues Selfishness, Regulates The Passions, Subordinates The Appetites, Quickens The Intellect, Exalts The Affections. It Promotes Industry, Honesty, Truth, Purity, Kindness. It Humbles The Proud, Exalts The Lowly, Upholds Law, Favors Liberty, Is Essential To It, And Would Unite Men In One Great Brotherhood. It Is The Breath Of Life To Social And Civil Well-being Here, And Spreads The Azure Of That Heaven Into Whose Unfathomed Depths The Eye If Faith Loves To Look.

Honesty

Kindness

Eye

Certainly, No Revolution That Has Ever Taken Place In Society Can Be Compared To That Which Has Been Produced By The Words Of Jesus Christ.

Jesus

Taken

Revolution

Who Will Reach Heaven? I Do Not Know, But I Am Certain That No One Will Be There Who Does Not Feel At Home.

Home

Heaven

Doe

The Essential Elements Of Giving Are Power And Love - Activity And Affection - And The Consciousness Of The Race Testifies That In The High And Appropriate Exercise Of These Is A Blessedness Greater Than Any Other.

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Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.

2. The Importance of Quotes

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Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.

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Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.

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3.1. Direct Quotes

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Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.

3.3. Block Quotes

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Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).

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Conclusion

Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.

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