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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... at the same time you are suspicious of them . Another time , give me some instance of the precise matter - i.e . , tell me what particular sentiments In the Edition Blaise . B you have mistrusted , and I shall know better how.
... at the same time you are suspicious of them . Another time , give me some instance of the precise matter - i.e . , tell me what particular sentiments In the Edition Blaise . B you have mistrusted , and I shall know better how.
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... tell you that I think you are too much disturbed by an eager search after perfection , and that it is this which makes you fearful about these feelings and consolations . And I would recall to you what we read in the Book of Kings ...
... tell you that I think you are too much disturbed by an eager search after perfection , and that it is this which makes you fearful about these feelings and consolations . And I would recall to you what we read in the Book of Kings ...
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... tell all His bones . " Bethink you that the bride's crown may not be softer than that of her Bridegroom . " As the rose3 among thorns , so is my love among the daughters . " 4 ' Tis but the natural place of the flower , no less so of ...
... tell all His bones . " Bethink you that the bride's crown may not be softer than that of her Bridegroom . " As the rose3 among thorns , so is my love among the daughters . " 4 ' Tis but the natural place of the flower , no less so of ...
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... tell you what I think about really good preaching . I am not sure whether it is your love for me which thus calls forth water out of stone ; or whether it is mine for you which causes a rose to blossom amid thorns . Forgive me this ...
... tell you what I think about really good preaching . I am not sure whether it is your love for me which thus calls forth water out of stone ; or whether it is mine for you which causes a rose to blossom amid thorns . Forgive me this ...
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... tell the most wondrous truths , but tell them badly , they will profit little . The art is to say but little , and that well . Now to do this in preaching , you must beware of " quanquam , " and pedantic phrases or gestures , which are ...
... tell the most wondrous truths , but tell them badly , they will profit little . The art is to say but little , and that well . Now to do this in preaching , you must beware of " quanquam , " and pedantic phrases or gestures , which are ...
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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.
Page 330 - SCRIPTURES, &c. The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version, with the Text revised by a Collation of its Early and other Principal Editions...
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.