Extracts from the religious works of monsr. François Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon, tr. by miss Marshall |
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... rest satisfied with the name , without ever considering how unworthy they are of bearing it . They pass this short life in a profound slumber , or a visionary dream : but the time will come when they shall be aroused indeed ! they shall ...
... rest satisfied with the name , without ever considering how unworthy they are of bearing it . They pass this short life in a profound slumber , or a visionary dream : but the time will come when they shall be aroused indeed ! they shall ...
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... of God . We must devote our lives to his service , and have no will , no wish , no hope , but in his love and approbation : in that alone is our rest in this life ; and that alone can enable us to look with hope and 11.
... of God . We must devote our lives to his service , and have no will , no wish , no hope , but in his love and approbation : in that alone is our rest in this life ; and that alone can enable us to look with hope and 11.
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... rest unto their souls , and that he re- freshes all those who are weary and heavy- laden with the burden of this life . But those divine words of our Lord can afford no comfort to those cowardly and de- based souls , which cannot shake ...
... rest unto their souls , and that he re- freshes all those who are weary and heavy- laden with the burden of this life . But those divine words of our Lord can afford no comfort to those cowardly and de- based souls , which cannot shake ...
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... rest on him . It is from his Love that we derive existence ; for the Power which hath created us for happiness ( if it be not our own fault ) might have denied us being , had it so pleased yet our frail and finite know- ledge would ...
... rest on him . It is from his Love that we derive existence ; for the Power which hath created us for happiness ( if it be not our own fault ) might have denied us being , had it so pleased yet our frail and finite know- ledge would ...
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... rest . To fly from their own accusing hearts , they plunge into the ambition , the crimes , and the vain amusements of this world . To such were addressed those words of our blessed Lord , " If I have told you of earthly things , and ye ...
... rest . To fly from their own accusing hearts , they plunge into the ambition , the crimes , and the vain amusements of this world . To such were addressed those words of our blessed Lord , " If I have told you of earthly things , and ye ...
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Page 75 - O that men would therefore praise the LORD for His goodness : and declare the wonders that He doeth for the children of men...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 48 - Consider then seriously with yourself, in all appearance the time of your dissolution draweth near; your sins have laid fast hold upon you; you are soon to be removed from among men by a violent death; and you shall fade away suddenly like the grass, which in the morning is green and groweth up, but in the evening is cut down, dried up, and withered.
Page 90 - being cast into hell, where the worm dieth not, and where the fire is not quenched.
Page 16 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Page 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.
Page 263 - 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.
Page 110 - Our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us," if we pass through them in submission to the will of God.
Page 129 - Rome ; and rejoicing that to them it was given, not only to believe in Christ, but also to suffer for his sake. This monument was erected by public subscription in the year of our Lord God 1841.