A selection from the spiritual letters of s. Francis de Sales, tr. by the author of 'Life of s. Francis de Sales'. |
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... hinder our course , through the affections ; withdrawing them not only from evil . objects , but from that which is not actually good . Moreover , such fervour must be asked of God , and with this aim you should be diligent in prayer ...
... hinder our course , through the affections ; withdrawing them not only from evil . objects , but from that which is not actually good . Moreover , such fervour must be asked of God , and with this aim you should be diligent in prayer ...
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... hinder you in preaching . The sooner you begin , the sooner you will succeed ; and the best way of mastering the difficulty is practice ; you can do this , and you ought : your voice is good , your theology sufficient , your manner ...
... hinder you in preaching . The sooner you begin , the sooner you will succeed ; and the best way of mastering the difficulty is practice ; you can do this , and you ought : your voice is good , your theology sufficient , your manner ...
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... hinders obedience - that is a carnal liberty - but such as hinders constraint and scruple , or over - eagerness . If you love obedience and submission , I would have you look upon any just or charitable call to give up your religious ...
... hinders obedience - that is a carnal liberty - but such as hinders constraint and scruple , or over - eagerness . If you love obedience and submission , I would have you look upon any just or charitable call to give up your religious ...
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... hinder them . Here again you may rejoice in them , but without ex- cessive attachment . Such a spirit can scarcely lose its cheerfulness , because no privation saddens him whose . heart has no earthly attachments . I do not say that he ...
... hinder them . Here again you may rejoice in them , but without ex- cessive attachment . Such a spirit can scarcely lose its cheerfulness , because no privation saddens him whose . heart has no earthly attachments . I do not say that he ...
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... hinders it from deriving satisfaction in the considera- tion of that which is good ; and what grieves you most is that , when you want to make firm resolutions , you do not feel your wonted decision , but you stumble F · I against a ...
... hinders it from deriving satisfaction in the considera- tion of that which is good ; and what grieves you most is that , when you want to make firm resolutions , you do not feel your wonted decision , but you stumble F · I against a ...
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Page 205 - IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Page 326 - College, and Rector of St. Botolph's, and the Rev. WJ Beamont, MA, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. With a Preface by the Lord Bishop of Winchester.
Page 298 - Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
Page 299 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place ; and labour, working with our own hands ; being reviled, we bless ; being persecuted, we suffer it : being defamed, we entreat : we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
Page 333 - COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF ISAIAH, Critical, Historical, and Prophetical ; including a Revised English Translation. With Introduction and Appendices on the Nature of Scripture Prophecy, the Life and Times of Isaiah, the Genuineness of the Later Prophecies, the Structure and History of the whole Book, the Assyrian History in Isaiah's Days, and various Difficult Passages.
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Page 195 - He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. Whether of them twain did the will of his father ? They say unto him, The first.
Page 28 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Page 43 - Take from me the way of lying : and cause thou me to make much of thy law.
Page 224 - For after all these things do the Gentiles seek : for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.