All errors in doctrine take their rise from the want of this (I mean errors in doctrine as to justification).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

And when it is considered that the work of today is made efficient by the memory of things learned yesterday, the day before yesterday, and so on, it is seen that the degree of attention given today regulates the quality of the work of tomorrow.
— from A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by William Walker Atkinson

Nearly the whole of the interior, more especially the vaulting, is beautified by these millions upon millions of tiny cubes of coloured and gilded glass, arranged with [249] infinite labour and skill, and wonderfully illustrating the most beautiful and impressive parts of Holy Writ, with reference to the history of mankind, from the creation.
— from Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux

But here appears the want of tenderness in Miss Edgeworth's work—a quantity she owned as a woman and lacked as an author.
— from Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern

They are distinguished above the ordinary operatic choruses of the day as much by their dignity of expression as by their construction and mode of treatment; and the wealth of the instrumentation, more especially the introduction of the trumpets, gives a character of solemnity and magnificence then unknown in operatic music.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

Gordon was absorbed, content; the quiet, the magic veil of oblivion, of the woods, of the immobile mountains, enveloped and soothed him, released his heart from its oppression, banished the fever, the struggle, from his brain.
— from Mountain Blood: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

If God wills, the will of the all-powerful must be irresistible; the will of the infinite must exclude all other wills.
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh

Thus if our theory of revelation-value were to affirm that any book, to possess it, must have been composed automatically or not by the free caprice of the writer, or that it must exhibit no scientific and historic errors and express no local or personal passions, the Bible would probably fare ill at our hands.
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James