 | Jean Baptiste Malou (bp. of Bruges.) - 1874 - 286 páginas
...sacrifice our salvation for their sake ? Have we forgotten those striking words of our Saviour r " What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul ? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul ?" * Would we have Him repeat for us what He said... | |
 | Henri-Dominique Lacordaire - 1874 - 272 páginas
...But its true value was imperfectly known to them. The Christian learned it all in that second word : What doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul ? * The ancients perceived God hy the light of their reason, and under the shadows of false divinities... | |
 | Mary Seymour - 1874 - 346 páginas
...use his gifts for a nobler and higher end than worldly approbation. " What will it profit a man it he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul ?" Over and over again Xavier heard those words from the lips of his new friend, but it was not easy... | |
 | Stephen Keenan - 1874 - 248 páginas
...motives of worldly gain or honour? A. I say with our Saviour, (St Mark viii.) What will it avail a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? CHAPTER IV. ON FAITH. SECTION I. Q. What is faith* A. It is a divine light or grace which God... | |
 | André Pradel - 1875 - 426 páginas
...lose the goods of the world than to forfeit God's grace, according as our Divine Master has said : " What doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul ? " (Matt. xvi. 26.) By detachment from relations the mind is purified from all the maxims dictated... | |
 | Louis Nazaire Bégin (card.) - 1875 - 288 páginas
...My Father who is in heaven. He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me;' 'for what doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul ?' ' Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things (worldly goods)... | |
 | Frances Noble - 1875 - 342 páginas
...which must come so surely to him in his pride as to the meanest creature : 'What will it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul V And kneeling down by the table, he buried his face again upon it. ' 0 my God, how have I deserved... | |
 | Michael Müller - 1875 - 524 páginas
...me," Matt. x. 37; and as to the loss of temporal gain He has answered : " What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul ? " Mark viii. 36. 109 be a Catholic in heart only, without professing his religion publicly ?... | |
 | Bruno Vercruysse - 1875 - 654 páginas
...have lost all without gaining any thing in return. For, our Lord adds, " What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul; or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (St. Mark 8:36, 37.) AFFECTIONS. — Let... | |
 | Edward Heneage Dering - 1875 - 312 páginas
...What will the world and its honours, if you had them all, profit you then ? What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul ? You once promised me—it was on the terrace at " Sherborne. " Oh, don't! The misery of that... | |
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For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul ? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul? 
