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... perfection ; a power to unlock the retired , the deeper , and nobler sensibilities of men's minds , to draw out the hoarded and hidden virtues of the soul , to open the fountains which custom and ceremony and reserve have sealed up : it ...
... perfection ; a power to unlock the retired , the deeper , and nobler sensibilities of men's minds , to draw out the hoarded and hidden virtues of the soul , to open the fountains which custom and ceremony and reserve have sealed up : it ...
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... perfection of character . This will always be found , I believe , to be a late stage in the progress of religious worth from its first beginnings . It is comparatively easy to be one thing and that alone ; to be all zeal , or all ...
... perfection of character . This will always be found , I believe , to be a late stage in the progress of religious worth from its first beginnings . It is comparatively easy to be one thing and that alone ; to be all zeal , or all ...
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... perfection is sum- med up in this one attribute : " God is love . " This is the very glory of God . For when an ancient ser- vant desired to " see his glory , " the answer to the prayer was , that " he caused all his goodness to pass ...
... perfection is sum- med up in this one attribute : " God is love . " This is the very glory of God . For when an ancient ser- vant desired to " see his glory , " the answer to the prayer was , that " he caused all his goodness to pass ...
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... perfection . I say , however low . And grant now that the moral conceptions of a man are very low ; yet if they are the highest he has , is there any thing higher that he can follow ? Will it be said there are the Scriptures ? But the ...
... perfection . I say , however low . And grant now that the moral conceptions of a man are very low ; yet if they are the highest he has , is there any thing higher that he can follow ? Will it be said there are the Scriptures ? But the ...
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... perfection of God . They do not identify that perfection , with all that is glorious , beautiful , lovely , admirable , and enrapturing , in nature , in character , in life , in existence . God's glory , they conceive to be something so ...
... perfection of God . They do not identify that perfection , with all that is glorious , beautiful , lovely , admirable , and enrapturing , in nature , in character , in life , in existence . God's glory , they conceive to be something so ...
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Sida 229 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Sida 292 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Sida 221 - But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Sida 174 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear...
Sida 240 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Sida 296 - But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Sida 283 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Sida 256 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they ? with the years beyond the flood.
Sida 63 - It is profitable for the life that now is, and for that which is to come.
Sida 9 - Thou hast ordained ; what is man, that Thou art mindful of him ? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him ? For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet...