Extracts from the Religious Works of Monsr François Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray: Tr. from the Original FrenchJ. Hatchard, 1809 - 291 páginas |
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... faults , and to become acquainted with our im- perfections , it is then more especially our duty to amend them to the utmost of our power . We must resign every sin- ful pleasure , and even the excess of every tender affection ...
... faults , and to become acquainted with our im- perfections , it is then more especially our duty to amend them to the utmost of our power . We must resign every sin- ful pleasure , and even the excess of every tender affection ...
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... faults and sufferings , renders us indulgent and compassionate to our fellow - creatures : it affords us also abundant causes for humbling ourselves before God ; for we cannot think , without the deepest self- abasement , on the ...
... faults and sufferings , renders us indulgent and compassionate to our fellow - creatures : it affords us also abundant causes for humbling ourselves before God ; for we cannot think , without the deepest self- abasement , on the ...
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... faults and errors may be turned to our good , by thus making them the causes of our humility ; and we may , through faith and trust in our blessed Saviour , certainly hope for the pardon of them . But this humbling sense of our own ...
... faults and errors may be turned to our good , by thus making them the causes of our humility ; and we may , through faith and trust in our blessed Saviour , certainly hope for the pardon of them . But this humbling sense of our own ...
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... faults without despair , and to avoid the pre- sumptuous supposition that we are fault- less , is the temper of mind which we ought to cultivate as the true and spi- ritual state of a christian . 20. We often meet with a kind of ...
... faults without despair , and to avoid the pre- sumptuous supposition that we are fault- less , is the temper of mind which we ought to cultivate as the true and spi- ritual state of a christian . 20. We often meet with a kind of ...
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... faults , and unconscious of its infirmities ; it feels them with redoubled force , it re- gards them with horror ; the knowledge of its own sinfulness increases every day , but it does not arrive at that knowledge through pride , vanity ...
... faults , and unconscious of its infirmities ; it feels them with redoubled force , it re- gards them with horror ; the knowledge of its own sinfulness increases every day , but it does not arrive at that knowledge through pride , vanity ...
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Página 75 - O that men would therefore praise the LORD for His goodness : and declare the wonders that He doeth for the children of men...
Página 121 - My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Página 275 - Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Página 136 - For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time, are not worthy to be compared with the glory, which shall be revealed in us.
Página 53 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Página 265 - ... so ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: for we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.
Página 217 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee : then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided ? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Página 60 - Then it will appear, what was meant by the man that comes without the wedding garment; for that is the day spoken of, Matt. xxii. 13. wherein such an one shall be bound hand and foot, and cast into outer darkness, where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Página 16 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Página 90 - being cast into hell, where the worm dieth not, and where the fire is not quenched.