...make a sacrifice of his own reputation for learning, and refinement, at the foot of the cross : and to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ his LORD. Gospel simplicity and sincerity, shall then be preferred by the Man of God, to all the soaring...

...make a sacrifice of his own reputation for learning, and refinement, at the foot of the cross: and to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ his LORD. Gospel simplicity and sincerity, shall then be preferred by the Man of God, to all the soaringflights...

...talent and science, it is yet possible, by the grace of God, so to learn Christ, as with St. Paul, to count all- things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ. I believe I ought to apologize to you, my reverend Mother, for this long digression concerning M. de...

...talent and science, it is yet possible, by the grace of God, so to learn Christ, as with St. Paul, to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ. I believe I ought to apologize to you, my reverend Mother, for this long digression concerning M. de...

...God, (I have reason to believe,) in answer to the prayers of some of his dear children, on my behalf, to bring conviction so home to my heart, and so to show me my periling condition, destitute of a Saviour, that I became in good earnest willing to " count all things...

...down to the present day. They have been ready to cry, with Thomas, " my Lord, and my God ;" with Paul, to " count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus ;" and with Stephen, full of the Holy Ghost, to cry, " Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." These persons...

...readiness to give up every thing which seems opposed to the complete sanctification of the soul ; — " to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ ;" and to lie, in all the abjectness of moral penury, at the foot of the Redeemer's cross, waiting...

...on learning the extent of the sacrifices which discipleship sometimes requires, you have been taught to " count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus ;" and that, rather than " go away" from such a Master, and renounce his service and his favour, you...

...God to strengthen me for his service, and sometimes captivated by my besetments, until it pleased God to bring conviction so home to my heart, and so to...that I became in good earnest willing to " count all tilings but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ." I no longer halted between the...

...the Divine attributes enforces ? Not assuredly, to make human science the great object of life; but to " count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ our Lord." To contemplate Him as the great and only Redeemer—to trust entirely in his mediation—to...