The Great Teacher: Characteristics of Our Lord's MinistryJ.S. and C. Adams, 1836 - 444 pages |
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Page xxxvi
... happiness after a thousand failures , and were about to give it an instant trial , he points them upwards , and reminds them that the good they seek is there ; that there is one thing to which every thing else desirable is appended ...
... happiness after a thousand failures , and were about to give it an instant trial , he points them upwards , and reminds them that the good they seek is there ; that there is one thing to which every thing else desirable is appended ...
Page xxxvii
... happiness by providing for them only an earthly portion , but that we select for them a good spiritual and immortal like themselves , suited to supply its impor- tant wants , and to gratify all their large capacities . Lay not up ...
... happiness by providing for them only an earthly portion , but that we select for them a good spiritual and immortal like themselves , suited to supply its impor- tant wants , and to gratify all their large capacities . Lay not up ...
Page xxxix
... happiness of the soul impossible . Let the present defer to the future , let it fall into its proper place as the handmaid of immortality , and instantly they are one again ; each is seen reciprocating its influence , and lend- ing its ...
... happiness of the soul impossible . Let the present defer to the future , let it fall into its proper place as the handmaid of immortality , and instantly they are one again ; each is seen reciprocating its influence , and lend- ing its ...
Page 57
... happiness and hope will instantly desert us , and , from that moment we shall have to date our woe . Virtue , wherever it exists , is greatness of the highest order ; for it allies us to supreme greatness ; but , as though he ...
... happiness and hope will instantly desert us , and , from that moment we shall have to date our woe . Virtue , wherever it exists , is greatness of the highest order ; for it allies us to supreme greatness ; but , as though he ...
Page 60
... happiness , the consumation of human woe : while , on the other hand , the peculiar and eternal charm of that world where all is glorious , is to consist in the manifestation and enjoyment of his presence . ' Where I am , there also ...
... happiness , the consumation of human woe : while , on the other hand , the peculiar and eternal charm of that world where all is glorious , is to consist in the manifestation and enjoyment of his presence . ' Where I am , there also ...
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Popular passages
Page 272 - Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; and hid that shall not be known.
Page 352 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Page 328 - And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth.
Page 44 - For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Page 232 - Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out ; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there : and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Page xiv - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 262 - I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Page 301 - Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Page 260 - The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Page 296 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly ; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh : but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly ; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter ; whose praise is not of men, but of God.