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Williams & Butland, 1877 - 159 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 116 - THE surest method of arriving at a knowledge of God's eternal purposes about us is to be found in the right use of the present moment. Each hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fastened upon its back.
Sayfa 135 - ... as to those who may be lost, I confidently believe that our Heavenly Father threw His arms round each created spirit, and looked it full in the face with bright eyes of love in the darkness of its mortal life, and that of its own deliberate will it would not have Him.
Sayfa 153 - Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine; et homo factus est. Crucifixus etiam pro nobis: sub Pontio Pilato passus, et sepultus est.
Sayfa 112 - If you are young, and look forward to the opening trials of life ; if you desire to find yourself strong in God's grace, and established in holiness, you must be sure of prayer. If you are middle-aged, and not so holy as you feel you should be, and look on to old age and its peculiar difficulties, you must be sure of prayer.
Sayfa 107 - LET us serve God in the sunshine, while He makes the sun shine. We shall then serve Him all the better in the dark, when He sends the darkness. It is sure to come.
Sayfa 125 - In a word the creature becomes more completely, more thoroughly, more significantly, a creature every moment that his created life is continued to him. This is, in fact, his true blessedness, — to be ever more and more enclosed in the hand of God who made Mm. The Creator's hand is the creature's home.
Sayfa 105 - Truth is not ours to bate and pare down. Truth is God's ; it has God's majesty inherent within it, and it will convert the souls of men, even when it seems rudest and most repelling ; and it will do so for this one reason — because it is God's truth, and because we through the grace of God have boldness and faith to put our trust in it.
Sayfa 34 - ... with a touching expression, half of sweetness, and half of surprise. His own words came forcibly upon one who knelt before him, for it seemed the realization of the picture which he himself had drawn : " Only serve Jesus out of love, and while your eyes are yet unclosed, before the whiteness of death is yet settled upon your face, or those around you are sure that that last gentle breathing was indeed your last, what an unspeakable surprise will you have had at the judgment-seat of your dearest...
Sayfa 64 - Roses grow on briars, say the wise men of the world, with that sententious morality which thinks to make virtue truthful by making it dismal. Yes ! but as the very different spirit of piety would say, it is a truer truth that briars bloom with roses. If roses have thorns, thorns also have roses. This is the rule of life. Yet everybody tells us one side of this truth, and nobody tells us the other."— (" The Precious Blood,
Sayfa 76 - A genial man is both an apostle and an evangelist ; an apostle, because he brings men to Christ ; an evangelist, because he portrays Christ to men.

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