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Strona 8
... Christ , or of his prophets and apostles ? " Do not , my dear , suppose , from what I have said and quoted , that I would hazard the unguarded assertion , that no beautiful composition exists out of the bible ; or that its pages contain ...
... Christ , or of his prophets and apostles ? " Do not , my dear , suppose , from what I have said and quoted , that I would hazard the unguarded assertion , that no beautiful composition exists out of the bible ; or that its pages contain ...
Strona 11
... Christ , ( leaving religious faith quite out of the ques- tion , ) of more sweetness and majesty , and more likely to work a change in the mind of man , by the contemplation of an idea alone , than any to be found in history , actual or ...
... Christ , ( leaving religious faith quite out of the ques- tion , ) of more sweetness and majesty , and more likely to work a change in the mind of man , by the contemplation of an idea alone , than any to be found in history , actual or ...
Strona 38
... Christ , will gradually lose their lustre , and cease to attract admi- ration or excite sympathy . You will learn that no plant of intellectual renown can long flourish in the soil of moral depravity ; -your mind's vision will be ...
... Christ , will gradually lose their lustre , and cease to attract admi- ration or excite sympathy . You will learn that no plant of intellectual renown can long flourish in the soil of moral depravity ; -your mind's vision will be ...
Strona 44
... Christ's day , but he saw it through the dim- ness and the distance of two thousand years . Moses knew by the law , that the Lord was merciful , gracious , and long - suffering , but he knew not the plenitude of " grace and truth ...
... Christ's day , but he saw it through the dim- ness and the distance of two thousand years . Moses knew by the law , that the Lord was merciful , gracious , and long - suffering , but he knew not the plenitude of " grace and truth ...
Strona 45
... Christ . The gospel they had , but not like ourselves , " without spot or wrinkle ; " a sun shining in its strength - a chain complete in every link - a whole per- fect in every part ! It was not to them that steady light , which ...
... Christ . The gospel they had , but not like ourselves , " without spot or wrinkle ; " a sun shining in its strength - a chain complete in every link - a whole per- fect in every part ! It was not to them that steady light , which ...
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Strona 115 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is...
Strona 238 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Strona 239 - And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day : And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Strona 15 - And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it.
Strona 51 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
Strona 30 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Strona 100 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Strona 22 - But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
Strona 23 - Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel ? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry : I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Strona 187 - Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.