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... desires our happiness and is capable of effecting it . If any superior intelligence wishes us to be happy , he is unable to accomplish his desire , since he often allows us to be miserable . Or conversely , if he could make us happy ...
... desires our happiness and is capable of effecting it . If any superior intelligence wishes us to be happy , he is unable to accomplish his desire , since he often allows us to be miserable . Or conversely , if he could make us happy ...
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... worship a Being who is not only called God , but who is God , who is good and kind , as well as powerful . They believe that He desires the welfare of all His creatures , and they cannot understand why He does not exercise His Its Uses .
... worship a Being who is not only called God , but who is God , who is good and kind , as well as powerful . They believe that He desires the welfare of all His creatures , and they cannot understand why He does not exercise His Its Uses .
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... desire for present enjoyment that leads men astray ; and they can only be brought back by the counter- active influence of pain . So far as suffering fulfils this purpose , it is manifestly the outcome of love . I say manifestly ; and ...
... desire for present enjoyment that leads men astray ; and they can only be brought back by the counter- active influence of pain . So far as suffering fulfils this purpose , it is manifestly the outcome of love . I say manifestly ; and ...
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... desires . The suffer- ing which follows sin is the outcome , not of a justice which can only be appeased by wreaking out a certain quantity of agony as an equivalent for a certain quantity of sin , but of a wise and tender love which ...
... desires . The suffer- ing which follows sin is the outcome , not of a justice which can only be appeased by wreaking out a certain quantity of agony as an equivalent for a certain quantity of sin , but of a wise and tender love which ...
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... desire a cross . And so it was with the rest of the disciples . They persisted in thinking , notwith- standing all Christ could say to the contrary , that He intended to deliver the Jews from the dominion of the Romans : they could not ...
... desire a cross . And so it was with the rest of the disciples . They persisted in thinking , notwith- standing all Christ could say to the contrary , that He intended to deliver the Jews from the dominion of the Romans : they could not ...
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Page 131 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them ? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Page 150 - How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray.
Page 291 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 200 - Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name ? and in thy name have cast out devils ? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 168 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity it profiteth me nothing.
Page 159 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 58 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
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Page 315 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
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