Extracts from the religious works of monsr. François Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon, tr. by miss Marshall |
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... faults , and to become acquainted with our im- perfections , it is then more especially our duty to amend them to the utmost of our power . We must resign every sin- ful pleasure , and even the excess of every tender affection ...
... faults , and to become acquainted with our im- perfections , it is then more especially our duty to amend them to the utmost of our power . We must resign every sin- ful pleasure , and even the excess of every tender affection ...
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... faults and sufferings , renders us indulgent and compassionate to our fellow - creatures : it affords us also abundant causes for humbling ourselves before God ; for we cannot think , without the deepest self- abasement , on the ...
... faults and sufferings , renders us indulgent and compassionate to our fellow - creatures : it affords us also abundant causes for humbling ourselves before God ; for we cannot think , without the deepest self- abasement , on the ...
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... faults and errors may be turned to our good , by thus making them the causes of our humility ; and we may , through faith and trust in our blessed Saviour , certainly hope for the pardon of them . But this humbling sense of our own ...
... faults and errors may be turned to our good , by thus making them the causes of our humility ; and we may , through faith and trust in our blessed Saviour , certainly hope for the pardon of them . But this humbling sense of our own ...
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... faults ! without despair , and to avoid the pre- sumptuous supposition that we are fault- less , is the temper of mind which we ought to cultivate as the true and spi- | ritual state of a christian . us nothine 20. We often meet with a ...
... faults ! without despair , and to avoid the pre- sumptuous supposition that we are fault- less , is the temper of mind which we ought to cultivate as the true and spi- | ritual state of a christian . us nothine 20. We often meet with a ...
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... faults , and unconscious of its infirmities ; it feels them with redoubled force , it re- gards them with horror ; the knowledge of its own sinfulness increases every day , but it does not arrive at that knowledge through pride , vanity ...
... faults , and unconscious of its infirmities ; it feels them with redoubled force , it re- gards them with horror ; the knowledge of its own sinfulness increases every day , but it does not arrive at that knowledge through pride , vanity ...
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Page 75 - O that men would therefore praise the LORD for His goodness : and declare the wonders that He doeth for the children of men...
Page 136 - For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time, are not worthy to be compared with the glory, which shall be revealed in us.
Page 53 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 48 - Consider then seriously with yourself, in all appearance the time of your dissolution draweth near; your sins have laid fast hold upon you; you are soon to be removed from among men by a violent death; and you shall fade away suddenly like the grass, which in the morning is green and groweth up, but in the evening is cut down, dried up, and withered.
Page 90 - being cast into hell, where the worm dieth not, and where the fire is not quenched.
Page 16 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Page 60 - Then it will appear, what was meant by the man that comes without the wedding garment; for that is the day spoken of, Matt. xxii. 13. wherein such an one shall be bound hand and foot, and cast into outer darkness, where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 263 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies : he that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church: for we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.
Page 110 - Our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us," if we pass through them in submission to the will of God.
Page 129 - Rome ; and rejoicing that to them it was given, not only to believe in Christ, but also to suffer for his sake. This monument was erected by public subscription in the year of our Lord God 1841.