 | Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1811 - 612 pages
...life itself, than to be diverted from your course, or to be retarded in it. Be assured that as " he who puts his hand to the plough, and looks back, is not fit for the kingdom of heaven," so neither can he be who halts in his Christian race. May God enable... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1833 - 574 pages
...life itself, than to be diverted from your course, or to be retarded in it. Be assured that, as " he who puts his hand to the plough, and looks back, is not fit for the kingdom of heaven," so neither can he be, who halts in his Christian race. May God enable... | |
 | Augusta M. Wicks - 1845 - 214 pages
...keep his laws ? On the other side,—Are there any like Mary faithfully serving their Lord, unlike the man who puts his hand to the plough, and looks back, for he is not fit for the kingdom of God ? Are there any like Mary diligently attending to " the one... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Sermons, English - 1846 - 484 pages
...doubting, hesitating people ; that it can be won only by strong resolutions steadily pursued ; that " He who puts his hand to the plough and looks back, is not fit for the kingdom of God." I need hardly describe to any one here present, what is meant by looking... | |
 | Alfonso Maria de' Liguori (st.) - 1848 - 190 pages
...Cyril, when explaining these words of Jesus Christ to the young man with whom he was speaking, " That he who puts his hand to the plough and looks back is not fit for the kingdom of God," comments • Frequenter amici earn ales adveraanturprofectui spirituali.... | |
 | James Brown - English language - 1856 - 254 pages
...adopted to give the negation, which is the only thing affirmed, greater force. The sense is thia viz. No man who puts his hand to the plough, and looks back, is fitybr the kingdom of God. Why does the writer use a preposition which is calculated to express fitness,... | |
 | comte René du Mesnil de Maricourt - French fiction - 1873 - 450 pages
...of His name, and that, without that, he could not be His disciple ? Has He not said likewise that he who puts his hand to the plough, and looks back, is not fit for the kingdom of God? I can not revoke that sentence. Follow the Lord entirely, and abandon yourself... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Unitarianism - 1886 - 236 pages
...more ; impatient as children with the thorns and thistles which spring up under their feet. But he who puts his hand to the plough and looks back is not fit for the kingdom of Labour, any more than he is fit for the kingdom of God. Whatever else ought... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Unitarianism - 1886 - 236 pages
...more ; impatient as children with the thorns and thistles which spring up under their feet. But he who puts his hand to the plough and looks back is not fit for the kingdom of Labour, any more than he is fit for the kingdom of God. Whatever else ought... | |
 | "Ritualist". - 1894 - 196 pages
...Cyril, when explaining these words of Jesus Christ to the young man with whom he was speaking, ' That he who puts his hand to the plough and looks back is not fit for the kingdom of God.' comments on them thus, 1 That he who loses time in consulting with his... | |
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But he who puts his hand to the plough and looks back is not fit for the kingdom of Labour, any more than he is fit for the kingdom of God. 
