 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 322 pages
...truth, a will, a work of God. Liberty has become nature; the creature is one with its creator—one through love. It is what it ought to be; its education...whole being. Seated motionless upon a bench on the Tranches, beside the slopes clothed with moss and tapestried with green, I passed some intense delicious... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 588 pages
...and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite. ' ' . ' N There are two states or conditions of pride. The first...pumping that we draw water into the well. 1st February 1854. — A walk. The atmosphere incredibly pure — a warm, caressing gentleness in the sunshine —... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887 - 676 pages
...ourselves, become spontaneous and involuntary, instinctive and unconscious, are really our life — that is to say, something more than our property. So long...think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. \st February 1854. — A walk. The atmosphere incredibly pure — a warm, caressing gentleness in the... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1889 - 378 pages
...ourselves, become spontaneous and involuntary, instinctive and unconscious, are really our life — that is to say, something more than our property. So long...pumping that we draw water into the well. 1st February 1854. — A walk. The atmosphere incredibly pure — a warm, caressing gentleness in the sunshine —... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1895 - 428 pages
...blessedness arises. Our fleshly hearts may call this mysticism. It is the mysticism of Jesus : ' 1 am one with my Father ; ye shall be one with me. We...relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, bv showing that we look. by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. 1st... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Guttery - Conversion - 1920 - 332 pages
...chorus of mutual and personal testimony, that an experience gains clarity and force. Amiel says truly :1 "It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by aifirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by. writing that we think, by pumping that we draw... | |
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Do not despise your situation ; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite. There are two states or conditions of pride. The first is one of self-approval, the second one of self-contempt.... 
