...wonderful in its variety, is always accomplished without effort and without the sense of fatigue. " Behold the lilies of the field. They toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you, that Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these." Again,...

...morality, and also a self-indulgent delight in aesthetics as "prior to and beyond utility ('Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin')." This latter "idea of sheer wastefulness," says McCarthy's persona, "is always shocking to non-Catholics":...

...therefore no thought for the morrow. . . . Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. . . . Consider the lilies of the field . . . they toil not, neither do they spin; yet ... even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Similar teachings are found...

...blizzard and thinking of his own past avarice, recalls part of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: "Think of the lilies ... of the field. They toil not neither do they spin, yet your heavenly Father car. . . . ." (BMC 108). 14 The Biblical verse invites reflection on the extent...

...eidier (look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap, nor gather into bams . . . Consider the lilies of the field: they toil not, neither do they spin). Work for die church, and keep die Law in die full form Jesus taught (seek first his kingdom and his...

...brought to the race a new dispensation of non-resistance and cessation of effort. He said, "Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin"; and again, If a man smite thce on one cheek, turn to him the other also" ; he knew that "no man is...

...brought to the race a new dispensation of non-resistance and cessation of effort. He said, "Consider t,he lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin "; and again, " If a man smite thee on one cheek, turn to him the other also" ; he knew that no man...

...theorem struck me still as a pretty one, but inconsequential, of no practical use to anyone. Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin. Well, Problem 44 was a mathematical lily. It was not the key to the atoms or the galaxies or biological...

...existence. One is less afraid of abandoning oneself to nature, to that nature of whom the Creator has said, "the lilies of the field, they toil not neither do they spin, and yet what royal robes can equal the splendour with which I have clothed these flowers!" '* Oswald...

...unto babes." How reconcile this with the injunction, " Be ye wise as serpents"? And, again, "Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not neither do they spin. Take no thought saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink, for after all these things do the...