James Martineau has shown that it is the lowliest who most need the loftiest; it is the tiny thorn that calls for the most tremendous grace.
And, whilst the loftiest among men honored her, the lowliest loved her.
They fancied an affinity existing among all the works of Nature, and that in the lowliest lay the secret attraction that might conduct them upward to the loftiest.
What was the old Colchian magic, but the minute study of Nature in her lowliest works?
There is that before which all incarnations, all saviours, have ever bowed down in lowliest adoration; there is that whose obedience they would not surrender if "the whole world and the glory thereof" were given to them.
It was an emblem of what all may be in some far-off day, when the lowliest amongst us learns to follow the Christs, the blessed company of all elect souls, in the way which begins and ends in the eternal righteousness.
We talk about kings leaving their palaces and putting on the rags of the beggar, and learning 'love in huts where poor men lie,' and making experience of the conditions of their lowliest subjects.
There never was a more sublime and wonderful binding together of the loftiest and the lowliest than in that question in the mouth of the Risen Lord.
Still, having the madness of genius, he was as much the slave of his art as though an universal fame had waited his lowliest and lightest effort.
What voice is beseeching thee For the scholar's lowliest place?
And, while striving to pierce what the Godhead conceals, From the far heights of Science look down with a fear To the lowliest truths the same Godhead reveals.
In arguing to support the thesis that in Africa the lowliest tribes had some ethical standard, it is not necessary to prove that these standards compare favorably or unfavorably with those of modern times.
From the highest dignitaries to the lowliest person, bond or free, white or black, were welcomed, and mother was equally gracious to all.
Far better in its place the lowliest bird Should sing aright to him the lowliest song, Than that a seraph strayed should take the word And sing his glory wrong.
In outskirts of Thy kingdoms vast, Father, the humblest spot give me; Set me the lowliest task Thou hast, Let me repentant work for Thee!
Thus in the strange little village the loftiest and the lowliest things always go hand in hand.
The beam that gilds alike the palace walls And lowly hut, with genial radiance falls On peer and peasant,--but the lowliest here Walks in the sunshine, free as is a peer.
Whose gentle head ye sheltered, that pure soul Whose gracious days of uncrowned majesty Through lowliest conduct touched the lofty goal Where love and duty mingle!
They have set themselves to express the wonder and mystery, the ecstasy and exaltation which inhere, however obscurely, in the lowliesthuman existence.
The highest spiritual dignities were open to the lowliest slave.
The inscriptions of the Catacombs indicate that not many wise, not many mighty, joined that phalanx of heroic souls; but they teach, too, that the lowliest toil may be dignified and ennobled by being done to the glory of God.
With common pewter, which the lowliest dame Would scorn, they furnish forth her homely table.
It is indeed the lowliest of all memorable processions which He plans, and yet, in its very humility, it appeals to ancient prophecy, and says unto Zion that her King cometh unto her.
But importing by His action something deliberate and grave, He sat down and called the Twelve, and pronounced the great law of Christian rank, which is lowliness and the lowliest service.
My abilities, by bowing them to the lowliest tasks, but kept me from famine:--was this to be my lot for ever?
They probably saw in our Lord's words nothing more than an injunction to lay upon themselves thelowliest duties in serving each other.
A child does not feel that he is humbling himself by helping even in the lowliest matters in his parents' work; rather is he elated at being found to be of use.
Christian greatness is born of willingness to lay the lowliest duties on yourself, and the way to be first is to be ready to remain last.
In lowliest depths of bosky dells The hermit Contemplation dwells.
To have a scholarly son or son-in-law was the best passport to the highest circles, a means of rising from the lowliest to the loftiest station in life.
While among the Russians and Poles the nobles who learned to read or write formed a rare exception, there was hardly one among the Jews, the verylowliest of them, who could not read Hebrew, and even translate it into the vernacular.
But no living being--neither the lowliest nor the highest--is itself as a whole or in any one particular absolutely perfect.
Concentrated here in small compass is every form and variety of living thing, from lowliest plant to forest monarch, from simplest animalcule to elephant, monkey, and man.
It is because we are coarse and fibrous and confined in the sick weight of flesh that we do not stand in a kind of creative awe before the lowliest mystery of our physical sight.
Yet Nature alone is but the lowliest of the three caskets.
McGraw, the men who have been the executive heads in both the business and the playing departments of the game, are as susceptible to reverses as if they were the lowliest club in the organization.
Far better in its place the lowliest bird Should sing aright to Him the lowliest song, Than that a seraph strayed should take the word And sing His glory wrong.
Beautiful feet are those that go On kindly ministries to and fro-- Down lowliest ways, if God wills it so.
The lowliest sphere was not disdained; Where love could soothe or save, They went, by fearless faith sustained, Nor knew their deeds were brave.
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