The Open Door: Sermons and PrayersPress of Wm. B. Burford, 1892 - 438 páginas |
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Página 15
... tell him exactly where to go and what to do . It is not proper to open it before , because the information , which is important , might get into the newspapers - somebody might tell it , and the ends desired could not be accomplished ...
... tell him exactly where to go and what to do . It is not proper to open it before , because the information , which is important , might get into the newspapers - somebody might tell it , and the ends desired could not be accomplished ...
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... tell when it will arrive at any place and at any experience . You can not tell any- thing that awaits you . Life is a mystery , the meaning of which is kept with God ; and all we have is a suc- cession of sealed orders which experience ...
... tell when it will arrive at any place and at any experience . You can not tell any- thing that awaits you . Life is a mystery , the meaning of which is kept with God ; and all we have is a suc- cession of sealed orders which experience ...
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... tell along what path they have swept or what next they will encounter . Life is inspirational and not mechanical . No man can tell just why it is he does a certain action . Lord Clive said to a man going out to be a Judge in India ...
... tell along what path they have swept or what next they will encounter . Life is inspirational and not mechanical . No man can tell just why it is he does a certain action . Lord Clive said to a man going out to be a Judge in India ...
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... tell where we go . All we know is that a great controlling mind knows where we are going ; knows every wind that blows across us ; knows all the things that shall happen to us ; has calculated the re- sistance , and knows that we shall ...
... tell where we go . All we know is that a great controlling mind knows where we are going ; knows every wind that blows across us ; knows all the things that shall happen to us ; has calculated the re- sistance , and knows that we shall ...
Página 25
... tell where we are . If I want to know God's word , I do not open a book , whether it is a Bible or a dictionary , to know it . I look down into my conscience . It is the living record of God , and I open some sealed order which I find ...
... tell where we are . If I want to know God's word , I do not open a book , whether it is a Bible or a dictionary , to know it . I look down into my conscience . It is the living record of God , and I open some sealed order which I find ...
Términos y frases comunes
Absalom beautiful beautiful souls become bless bring Christian church comes comfort common dark dark tower death despised and rejected duty earth Edom evil face faculty faith Father feel flower friends gate give God's hand happiness hear heart heaven hope human soul idea intellect Jesus Christ Jesus of Nazareth justice kingdom Kingdom of God kingdom of heaven lack landscape art lift light little child little children live look lost Mary Mapes Dodge means ment mind mystery nature nature of things never pain peace perfect perfect law pity poverty presence religion scarcer than dollars sense silent simply social sorrow spirit strength strong sympathy tell thee Theodore Parker things Thomas Lucy thought thousand tion to-day true truth trying voice walk wealth whole woman women word wrong young
Pasajes populares
Página 423 - Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Página 419 - I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou Shouldst lead me, on. I loved to choose and see my path ; but now Lead Thou me on ! I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will : remember not past years.
Página 423 - Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove...
Página 346 - There they stood, ranged along the hill-sides — met To view the last of me, a living frame For one more picture ! in a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set And blew. " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.
Página 425 - OH yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Página 420 - Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Página 275 - I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God, I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
Página 424 - As sometimes in a dead man's face, To those that watch it more and more, A likeness, hardly seen before, Comes out — to some one of his race : So, dearest, now thy brows are cold, I see thee what thou art, and know Thy likeness to the wise below, Thy kindred with the great of old.
Página 425 - How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine affections bold Should be the man whose thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead. In vain shalt thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say, My spirit is at peace with all.
Página 421 - How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.