The Young Man's Friend and Guide Through Life to ImmortalityH. Adams & Company, 1863 - 312 páginas |
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... christian duties are drawn from christian doctrines , and are to be enforced by them , I am still of opinion that what is practical will be more : for your edification , than what is theoretical or controver- 2 PREPARATION.
... christian duties are drawn from christian doctrines , and are to be enforced by them , I am still of opinion that what is practical will be more : for your edification , than what is theoretical or controver- 2 PREPARATION.
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... opinion of your own capability and resources , on the one hand ; and on the other , against the complacent self - reliance , confidence , and conceit , which would lead you to think you can do everything . While you neither lean ...
... opinion of your own capability and resources , on the one hand ; and on the other , against the complacent self - reliance , confidence , and conceit , which would lead you to think you can do everything . While you neither lean ...
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... opinion of others , and a craving after admiration and applause . Seek to be approved rather than to be admired . Covet the esteem of the wise and the good ; but do not hunger after the indiscriminate praise of any and every body ...
... opinion of others , and a craving after admiration and applause . Seek to be approved rather than to be admired . Covet the esteem of the wise and the good ; but do not hunger after the indiscriminate praise of any and every body ...
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... opinions ? If the Lord be God , follow him but if Baal , then follow him . 1 KINGS , xix , 21 . THE scene to which this passage of the Jewish narra- tive refers , is one of the most sublime and important to be found in the whole range ...
... opinions ? If the Lord be God , follow him but if Baal , then follow him . 1 KINGS , xix , 21 . THE scene to which this passage of the Jewish narra- tive refers , is one of the most sublime and important to be found in the whole range ...
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... opinions ? If the Lord be God follow him ; if Baal , then follow him . Ye are not yet in conviction quite alienated from ... opinion and practice between Jehovah and Baal . Your irresolution is as guilty as your suspense must be painful ...
... opinions ? If the Lord be God follow him ; if Baal , then follow him . Ye are not yet in conviction quite alienated from ... opinion and practice between Jehovah and Baal . Your irresolution is as guilty as your suspense must be painful ...
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Página 79 - And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? 18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
Página 79 - Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Página 177 - Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Página 162 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Página 10 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Página 33 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Página 177 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Página 194 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Página 242 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Página 291 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.