The Still Hour: Or, Communion with GodGould and Lincoln, 1860 - 136 sidor |
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... Lord , of whom we read , ' As he prayed , the fashion of his countenance was altered , and his raiment became white and glistering ? ' Who of us is not oppressed by the contrast between such an experience and his own ? Does not the cry ...
... Lord , of whom we read , ' As he prayed , the fashion of his countenance was altered , and his raiment became white and glistering ? ' Who of us is not oppressed by the contrast between such an experience and his own ? Does not the cry ...
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... LORD WILL NOT HEAR ME.-Ps. 66 : 18 . WE often affront God by offering prayers which we are not willing to have answered . Theoretical piety is never more deceptive than in acts of devotion . We pray for blessings which we know to be ...
... LORD WILL NOT HEAR ME.-Ps. 66 : 18 . WE often affront God by offering prayers which we are not willing to have answered . Theoretical piety is never more deceptive than in acts of devotion . We pray for blessings which we know to be ...
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... Lord's ear is not heavy that it cannot hear . But your iniquities have separated between you and your God . Your sins have hid his face from you . Therefore , we wait for light , but behold obscurity ; for brightness , but we walk in ...
... Lord's ear is not heavy that it cannot hear . But your iniquities have separated between you and your God . Your sins have hid his face from you . Therefore , we wait for light , but behold obscurity ; for brightness , but we walk in ...
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... Lord himself performed it , drops pro- portionately ; and in that proportion , our motive to prayer dwindles . Of necessity , then , our devotions become spiritless . We cannot obey such faith in prayer , with any more heart than a man ...
... Lord himself performed it , drops pro- portionately ; and in that proportion , our motive to prayer dwindles . Of necessity , then , our devotions become spiritless . We cannot obey such faith in prayer , with any more heart than a man ...
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... Lord ! thy servant findeth it in his heart to pray this prayer unto Thee . ' ' Good prayers , ' says an old English di- vine , ' never come weeping home . I am sure I shall receive either what I ask or what I should ask . ' Such a habit ...
... Lord ! thy servant findeth it in his heart to pray this prayer unto Thee . ' ' Good prayers , ' says an old English di- vine , ' never come weeping home . I am sure I shall receive either what I ask or what I should ask . ' Such a habit ...
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Sida 74 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Sida 11 - I know not how to express otherwise, than by a calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary wilderness, far from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and wrapt and swallowed up in God.
Sida 51 - Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude ; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
Sida 11 - And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, He took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. And as He prayed, the fashion of His countenance was altered, and His raiment was white and glistering.
Sida 51 - O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
Sida 73 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness...
Sida 114 - The eternal regions. Lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold...
Sida 68 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.
Sida 107 - CTILL with thee, O my God, ^ I would desire to be ; By day, by night, at home, abroad, I would be still with thee...
Sida 75 - ... here below; so is the prayer of a good man ; when his affairs have required business, and his business was matter of discipline, and his discipline was to pass upon a sinning person, or had a design of. charity, his duty met with the...