...It is better to pay court to the furnace than to the SouthWest Corner ?'" The Master said, "Not so. He who offends against Heaven has none to whom he can pray." This was a proverbial saying : " It is better to propitiate the Stove than to propitiate the South-...

...doors one may know the whole world. A diamond with a flaw is preferable to a common stone with none. He who offends against Heaven has none to whom he can pray. The tongue which is yielding, endures ; the teeth which are stubborn, perish. The ungrateful son is a wart...

...determined in strict accordance with their conduct, it is obviously futile to importune Heaven to change it: "He who offends against Heaven has none to whom he can pray." Once when Confucius was ill his disciple, Tsze-lu, asked leave to pray for him. He said, "Is that proper?"...

...to signifying personal being. Otherwise it is hard to explain some of his sayings as, for example, "He who offends against Heaven has none to whom he can pray." "It is only Heaven who knoweth me." When he was threatened by his opponents, he said without fear:...

...what is right and not to do it is want of courage." " Worship as though the Deity were present." " He who offends against Heaven has none to whom he can pray." " If my mind is not engaged in my worship, it is as though I worshiped not." " Coarse rice for food,...

...is better to pay court to the furnace than to the south-west corner' ?" 2. The Master said, "Not so. He who offends against Heaven has none to whom he can pray." CHAPTER XIV. The Master said, "Chow had the advantage of viewing the two past, dynasties. How complete...

...life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" Analects of Confucius, book III., chapter 13: ' ' He who offends against Heaven has none to whom he can pray." "Him that cometh to me I will in nowise cast out." Koran of Mahomet, chapter III. ; beginning of prayer:...

...misery of having none upon whom to call." Confucius stated it in even stronger terms, when he said: "He who offends against Heaven, has none to whom he can pray." (Analects, bk. iii., c. xiii., v. 2.) Such prayer, continually offered by means of a virtuous and useful...

...his son to serve him. I must not forget to quote from the same work (p. 140) yet another utterance : He who offends against Heaven has none to whom he can pray ; from which it will be seen that Confucius was truly religious ; as certainly he was, though he was...

...personal name Shang-ti but by the impersonal Tien. He recognises indeed Heaven's power and knowledge—" He who offends against Heaven has none to whom he can pray " i 1 " There is Heaven—that knows me," 2 but such references are very few. His ethical ideal is...