 It sometimes seemed to me," she said, "as if I were a little bird whom the Lord had placed in a cage, and that I had nothing now to do but sing. The joy of my heart gave a brightness to the objects around me. The stones of my prison looked in my eyes...  The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion - Sida 423efter Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon - 1804 - 503 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1882 - 594 sidor
...had nothing now to do but to sing. The joy of my heart gave a brightness to the objects around me. The stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies. I esteemed them more than all the gaudy brilliances of a vain world. My heart was full of that joy which Thou givest to them that love Thee... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 sidor
...that 1 had nothing now to do but sing. The joy of my hurt gave a brightness to the objects around me. THe stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies. I esteemed them more than all the gaudy brilliances of a vain world. My heart was full of that joy which Thou givest unto them that love Thee... | |
 | Robert Rhoden Meredith - 1883 - 136 sidor
...that I had nothing now to do but sing. The joy of my heart gave a brightness to objects around me. The stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies....a vain world. My heart was full of that joy which God gives to them that love him in the midst of their greatest crosses." 3. Their Deliverer. " Suddenly... | |
 | 1884 - 462 sidor
...that I had nothing now to do but sing. The joy of my heart gave a brightness to the objects around me. The stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies....heart was full of that joy which Thou givest to them that love Thee in the midst of their great crosses ; ' — a sentiment which she embodied, during one... | |
 | John Hunt - 1885 - 330 sidor
...gave a brightness to the objects around me. The stones in my prison looked in my eyes like rubies. My heart was full of that joy which Thou givest to them that love Thee in the midst of their greatest enemies." These thoughts are expressed in one of the... | |
 | William Henry Parker - 1889 - 276 sidor
...whatever to occupy her mind but Christ, and He was all-sufficient. She said: " The very stones of my cell looked in my eyes like rubies. I esteemed them more than all the gaudy brilliancies of the world." It was surely true of Madame Guyon that " God, her maker," gave her '' songs in the night."... | |
 | Clara McLeister - 1920 - 522 sidor
...peace, content to pass the rest of my life there if such were the will of God. I sang songs of joy; the stones of my prison looked in my eyes like rubies....than all the gaudy brilliancies of a vain world." "I have borne long and sore languishings, and oppressive and painful maladies without relief. I have... | |
 | dr. w. p. mackay - 1879 - 444 sidor
...me. The stones of my prison looked like rubies. I esteemed them more than all the gaudy brilliances of a vain world. My heart was full of that joy which...love Thee in the midst of their greatest crosses." From that joyful heart came forth this little song : " A little bird I am, Shut from the fields of... | |
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