Fifty-six Short Sermons for the Use of Lay ReadersSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1922 - 234 páginas |
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... happiness seems absolutely involved , and no answer seems to come . What are we to say to such cases ? Firstly , it may well be that what we ask is really to our hurt . A man gets a telegram telling him to catch the first train home as ...
... happiness seems absolutely involved , and no answer seems to come . What are we to say to such cases ? Firstly , it may well be that what we ask is really to our hurt . A man gets a telegram telling him to catch the first train home as ...
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... happiness for it to live , else why does she mourn ? But how does she know that this is so ? Some children grow up to face a burden of lifelong pain and suffering , compared with which an early death is a blessed gift of God ; some ...
... happiness for it to live , else why does she mourn ? But how does she know that this is so ? Some children grow up to face a burden of lifelong pain and suffering , compared with which an early death is a blessed gift of God ; some ...
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... happiness in life depends on our obedience to an extent that we do not usually realise . The first reason is this . " The life is more than meat , and the body than raiment . " Given life , it is a compara- tively easy matter to ...
... happiness in life depends on our obedience to an extent that we do not usually realise . The first reason is this . " The life is more than meat , and the body than raiment . " Given life , it is a compara- tively easy matter to ...
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... happiness in her love and care for her child , not in calculations as to what he is likely to do for her in after years . A man may even welcome pain and find a keen pleasure in it if it give him the opportunity of expressing some ...
... happiness in her love and care for her child , not in calculations as to what he is likely to do for her in after years . A man may even welcome pain and find a keen pleasure in it if it give him the opportunity of expressing some ...
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... happiness betray ; Who not content that former worth stand fast Looks forward , persevering to the last , From well to better daily self - surpassed : Who whether praise of him must walk the earth For ever , and to noble deeds give ...
... happiness betray ; Who not content that former worth stand fast Looks forward , persevering to the last , From well to better daily self - surpassed : Who whether praise of him must walk the earth For ever , and to noble deeds give ...
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angels answer Baptism believe better Bible body Christian faith Church Church of England comes condemned confess cosmic dust danger dark death divine grace earth earthly effort eternal evil eyes face fact fear forget gift GILBERT WHITE give glory God's Gospel grace happiness hath heart heaven heavenly Holy Baptism Holy Communion Holy Spirit honour hope human ideal infinite Jeroboam Jerusalem Jesus Christ Jews Kingdom Lambeth Conference Last Judgment LITURGICAL COLOURS live look Lord Lord's matter means meant mind moral nature neighbour never ourselves pain Paul peace Pharisees pleasure pray prayer race realise religion remember Roman Sacraments sacrifice self-sacrifice selfish sins soldier sorrow soul spiritual stars suffering teaching Thee things Thou thought tion to-day trouble true trust truth unto whole words worship wrong
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Página 110 - a should not think of God ; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet: So, 'a bade me lay more clothes on his feet : I put my hand into the bed, and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone ; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
Página 172 - Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Página 63 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Página 116 - And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices : and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
Página 12 - Therefore take no thought, saying: What shall we eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek.) For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Página 34 - Who, with a toward or untoward lot, Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not — Plays, in the many games of life, that one Where what he most doth value must be won: Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray; Who not content that former worth stand fast, Looks forward, persevering to the last, From well to better, daily self surpassed...
Página 168 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Página 118 - THEREFoRE with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name, evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts ! heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord most high.
Página 122 - Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I go then from thy presence? If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: If I go down to hell, thou art there also.
Página 30 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.