Extracts from the religious works of monsr. François Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon, tr. by miss Marshall |
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... virtue , and yet forfeit the first step in your duty - an im- plicit reliance on God for every thing ? Would you have God , the incomprehen- sible , the infinite God , subject himself to the limited faculties of the creature whom he has ...
... virtue , and yet forfeit the first step in your duty - an im- plicit reliance on God for every thing ? Would you have God , the incomprehen- sible , the infinite God , subject himself to the limited faculties of the creature whom he has ...
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... sufficient powers of resistance . Not the Tempter ; for of what value is that virtue which has never been tried ? -Indeed , we have only the doubts and assertions of man against this state- ment ; and we cannot but confess the justice of ...
... sufficient powers of resistance . Not the Tempter ; for of what value is that virtue which has never been tried ? -Indeed , we have only the doubts and assertions of man against this state- ment ; and we cannot but confess the justice of ...
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... truly religious disposition shews itself in the performance of the duties and virtues which belong to our peculiar situations in the world . If we make it our constant endeavour to serve God to the utmost of our power , and to 20.
... truly religious disposition shews itself in the performance of the duties and virtues which belong to our peculiar situations in the world . If we make it our constant endeavour to serve God to the utmost of our power , and to 20.
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... virtue , what is to become of us ? The most debased and foolish passions which possess us , arise from attachments wrongly placed . God created us to love him and to obey him ; and if we pervert our natural love of vir- tue by our ...
... virtue , what is to become of us ? The most debased and foolish passions which possess us , arise from attachments wrongly placed . God created us to love him and to obey him ; and if we pervert our natural love of vir- tue by our ...
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... virtues , and the performance of our duties . Our Lord Jesus Christ , who knew his disciples better than they did them- selves , told them , that they were not able , in their present state , to bear all that he had to say to them . And ...
... virtues , and the performance of our duties . Our Lord Jesus Christ , who knew his disciples better than they did them- selves , told them , that they were not able , in their present state , to bear all that he had to say to them . And ...
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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.