Fifty-six Short Sermons for the Use of Lay ReadersSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1922 - 234 páginas |
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... wrong , such as for the gratification of our passions or hatreds , obviously will not be answered . Prayers that are experimental , designed to see whether God will or will not do a certain thing , will not be answered for they are not ...
... wrong , such as for the gratification of our passions or hatreds , obviously will not be answered . Prayers that are experimental , designed to see whether God will or will not do a certain thing , will not be answered for they are not ...
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... wrong , but we are deplorably weak , we give way so easily to strong temptation , we get so easily tired of doing right . Strength of soul , spiritual refreshment ! Is it not our most urgent need ? Is it not then a thousand pities that ...
... wrong , but we are deplorably weak , we give way so easily to strong temptation , we get so easily tired of doing right . Strength of soul , spiritual refreshment ! Is it not our most urgent need ? Is it not then a thousand pities that ...
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... wrong - doing . Wrong - doing often brings to the wrong - doer disease and want , mental distress , and the vengeance of society . The drunkard loses his job and becomes poor ; the thief or the murderer is in danger of finding himself ...
... wrong - doing . Wrong - doing often brings to the wrong - doer disease and want , mental distress , and the vengeance of society . The drunkard loses his job and becomes poor ; the thief or the murderer is in danger of finding himself ...
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... wrong instead of recognising that our true standards do not come from man , but have been revealed to us as the will and the nature of One altogether outside and above us , the Almighty and All- wise God . Lastly , and largely as a ...
... wrong instead of recognising that our true standards do not come from man , but have been revealed to us as the will and the nature of One altogether outside and above us , the Almighty and All- wise God . Lastly , and largely as a ...
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... wrong - doing is only wrong when you are found out , and that if your wrong - doing is only secret it is unobjectionable . The second theory is a much higher one , but it is open to the fatal objection that no one knows better than the ...
... wrong - doing is only wrong when you are found out , and that if your wrong - doing is only secret it is unobjectionable . The second theory is a much higher one , but it is open to the fatal objection that no one knows better than the ...
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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.