 | 1841 - 228 pages
...a cowardly pride, — nothing is worse ; whether we stumble, or whether we fall, we must think only of rising again, and going on in our course. Our faults...God. Let us bless God with as true thankfulness, if we have been enabled to make any progress in virtue, as if we had made it in our own strength, and... | |
 | Sunday school assoc - 1858 - 206 pages
...a state of humility ; on the contrary, it is the despair and vexation of a cowardly pride ; nothing is worse : whether we stumble or whether we fall,...Let us bless God with as true thankfulness, if he has enabled us to make any progress in virtue, as if we had made it through our own strength ; and... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 408 pages
...state of humility ; on the contrary it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride — nothing is worse ; whether we stumble or whether we fall,...confidence in ourselves, and do not deprive us of our humble and salutary confidence in God. He never makes us feel our weakness but that we may be led... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 416 pages
...state of humility ; on the contrary it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride — nothing is worse ; whether we stumble or whether we fall,...confidence in ourselves, and do not deprive us of our humble and salutary confidence in God. He never makes us feel our weakness but that we may be led... | |
 | 1874 - 648 pages
...a state of humility ; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride ; nothing is worse ; whether we stumble or whether we fall,...think of rising again and going on in our course. — Fenelon. It is a pity we so often succeed in our attempt to deceive each other, for our double-dealing... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 424 pages
...a state of humility ; on the contrary, it is vexation and de, spair of a cowardly pride, —nothing is worse ; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on our course." — Ftn&on. b Keilh. a " God's threshing,floor would be a vast one, wherever Israel was... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1879 - 250 pages
...state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride, — nothing is worse ; whether we stumble, or whether we fall,...ourselves, and do not deprive us of an humble and salutary confiden:e in God. God never makes us feel out weaknesses, but that we may be led to seek strength... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1880 - 686 pages
...a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the Vexation and despair of a cowardly pride ; nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we...think of rising again, and going on in our course. Do your work, then; only let it be a noble one. Be faithful to your trust. If you have but one talent... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1884 - 648 pages
...a state of humility ; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride ; nothing is worse ; whether we stumble or whether we fall,...think of rising again, and going on in our course. Do your work, then ; only let it be a noble one. Be faithful to your trust. If you have but one talent... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones, Joseph Samuel Exell, Charles Neil - 1889 - 538 pages
...Despondency is not a state of humility ; on the contrary, it is vexation and despair of a cowardly pride ; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only...think of rising again and going on in our course. — Ftnelon. [11499] Life is a warfare ; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty ; he betrays... | |
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... begin to cure them. We must neither flatter nor be impatient with ourselves, in the correction of our faults. Despondency is not a state of humility ; on the contrary it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride — nothing is worse ; whether... 
