God: Conferences Delivered at Notre Dame in Paris by the Rev. Père Lacordaire; Tr. from the French, with the Author's PermissionChapman & Hall, 1870 - 260 pages |
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... happiness . Since I move , it is to act : to act is at the same time the motive and the end of movement , and consequently action is a productive movement . Do not grow weary of following me ; it is true I am D leading you by ways whose ...
... happiness . Since I move , it is to act : to act is at the same time the motive and the end of movement , and consequently action is a productive movement . Do not grow weary of following me ; it is true I am D leading you by ways whose ...
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... happiness in communicating our own happiness . That egotism , 3 Proverbs xvi . 4 . if such it be , is that of great souls The Creation of the World by God . 79.
... happiness in communicating our own happiness . That egotism , 3 Proverbs xvi . 4 . if such it be , is that of great souls The Creation of the World by God . 79.
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... happiness , it makes us dear and precious in his sight . It would also be easy for me to explain that other expression to you : God created the world for his glory . The inner glory of God is in his sovereign perfection ; his outer ...
... happiness , it makes us dear and precious in his sight . It would also be easy for me to explain that other expression to you : God created the world for his glory . The inner glory of God is in his sovereign perfection ; his outer ...
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... happiness , turns finally to their eternal woe . By their own fault , it is true , but what does that signify ? God knew it , God had foreseen it . Was it an act of goodness to place beings in the world whom infallible foreknowledge ...
... happiness , turns finally to their eternal woe . By their own fault , it is true , but what does that signify ? God knew it , God had foreseen it . Was it an act of goodness to place beings in the world whom infallible foreknowledge ...
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... happiness and misery . What would it be if , instead of a single generation , it were a question of all human generations ? What would it be if to you were given the choice of destroying or creating the universe ? For such is the ...
... happiness and misery . What would it be if , instead of a single generation , it were a question of all human generations ? What would it be if to you were given the choice of destroying or creating the universe ? For such is the ...
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Page 248 - Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Page 97 - For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Page 236 - Let us make man to our image and likeness, and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
Page 120 - Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in; naked, and you covered me; sick and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.
Page 97 - For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
Page 243 - And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Page 131 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 198 - For the word of God is living and effectual, and more piercing than any twoedged sword : and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also, and the marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Page 133 - Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.
Page 42 - And there are three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one.