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... says Christ , " will I grant to sit with me on my throne . " But , 3d , it is said that God , at any rate , might ... say this is , however , to talk nonsense . A will cannot be strong enough to choose only one course , for it is the ...
... says Christ , " will I grant to sit with me on my throne . " But , 3d , it is said that God , at any rate , might ... say this is , however , to talk nonsense . A will cannot be strong enough to choose only one course , for it is the ...
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... say the existence of suffering shows that there is no God , that there is no one who at once desires our happiness and is capable of effecting it . If any superior intelligence ... says this class of thinkers , is the outcome of a fortuitous.
... say the existence of suffering shows that there is no God , that there is no one who at once desires our happiness and is capable of effecting it . If any superior intelligence ... says this class of thinkers , is the outcome of a fortuitous.
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... says ( you remember ) in " As You Like It " : — " Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which , like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in his head . " Just let us consider one or two of the positive uses of adversity ...
... says ( you remember ) in " As You Like It " : — " Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which , like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in his head . " Just let us consider one or two of the positive uses of adversity ...
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... says the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews , Christ was made perfect . And what is true of Christ , in regard to the helpful effects of suffering , is true in some degree of others . As far as my experience goes , it is this — the ...
... says the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews , Christ was made perfect . And what is true of Christ , in regard to the helpful effects of suffering , is true in some degree of others . As far as my experience goes , it is this — the ...
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... say , that those who have not had some personal experience of sorrow are altogether incapable of understanding or pity- ing the sufferings of others . They decline to take their part in bearing the common burden of human woe . And what ...
... say , that those who have not had some personal experience of sorrow are altogether incapable of understanding or pity- ing the sufferings of others . They decline to take their part in bearing the common burden of human woe . And what ...
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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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