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... ourselves do . I say very seldom . The Bible does so here and there , to tell us that we may do so likewise . And we may thank God heartily that the Bible does so . It would be a miserable world , if all that the clergyman or the friend ...
... ourselves do . I say very seldom . The Bible does so here and there , to tell us that we may do so likewise . And we may thank God heartily that the Bible does so . It would be a miserable world , if all that the clergyman or the friend ...
Page 79
... ourselves . So soon , and it will be over , and we shall have no time at all , for we shall be in eternity . And what then ? What then ? That depends on what now . On what we are doing now . Are we letting our short span of life slip ...
... ourselves . So soon , and it will be over , and we shall have no time at all , for we shall be in eternity . And what then ? What then ? That depends on what now . On what we are doing now . Are we letting our short span of life slip ...
Page 80
Charles Kingsley. away in sleep ; fancying ourselves all the while wide awake , as we do in dreams - till we wake really ; and find that it is daylight , and that all our best dreams were nothing but useless fancy ? How many dream away ...
Charles Kingsley. away in sleep ; fancying ourselves all the while wide awake , as we do in dreams - till we wake really ; and find that it is daylight , and that all our best dreams were nothing but useless fancy ? How many dream away ...
Page 109
... ourselves . It often makes us unhappy just when we try to be happy . It shames us and cries in our hearts - You were not meant merely to please yourselves , and be as the beasts which perish . But how few listen to that voice of God's ...
... ourselves . It often makes us unhappy just when we try to be happy . It shames us and cries in our hearts - You were not meant merely to please yourselves , and be as the beasts which perish . But how few listen to that voice of God's ...
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... fields , white for harvest , and pray God to send labourers into his spiritual harvest - field ; to look on the tares which grew among the wheat , and know we must not try to part them ourselves , but 154 [ SERM . RUTH .
... fields , white for harvest , and pray God to send labourers into his spiritual harvest - field ; to look on the tares which grew among the wheat , and know we must not try to part them ourselves , but 154 [ SERM . RUTH .
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Page 39 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming ; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 221 - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Page 88 - Yet once more' signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Page 37 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Page 165 - Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
Page 142 - Thou, O Christ, art all I want, More than all in thee I find ! Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind ; Just and holy is thy name, I am all unrighteousness ; False and full of sin I am, Thou art full of truth and grace.
Page 34 - ... if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day : and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 55 - But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 194 - Eye* hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him...
Page 179 - 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.