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There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.
joseph alleine— P. 621. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Religion, then, is Love's Celestial ForceThat penetrates thro' all to Its True Source;Loves all along, but with proportion'd Bent,As Creatures further the Divine Ascent,Not to the Skies or Stars, but to the partThat will be always uppermost, — the Heart,There is the Seat, as Holy Writings tell,Where the Most High Himself delights to dwell;Whither attracting the desirous WillTo its true Rest, He saves it from all Ill,Gives it to find in His Abyssal LoveAn Heav'n within, — in other Words, Above.
john byrom— St. 7 & 8.
It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him. We hold that the universe exists because the Creator wills it so; that mankind is low in rank as compared with the uppermost portion of the universe, viz., with the spheres and the stars; but, as regards the angels, there cannot be any real comparison between man and angels, although man is the highest of all beings on earth; i.e., of all the beings formed of the four elements.
maimonides— Ch.12 (Part III)
No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of economic activity.
richard weaver— “The Importance of Cultural Freedom,” p. 25
To cut off the uppermost skin of the secret parts is directly against the honesty of nature, and an injurious insufferable trick put upon her.
— Dr John Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis, man transform'd, or the artificial changeling (London 1650), p. 213
There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.
— Joseph Alleine, p. 621. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the Truth shall ever come uppermost, And Justice shall be done.
charles mackay— Charles Mackay, Eternal Justice, Stanza 4
In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856), Book V, line 981; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
