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... virtue , his repose , and his happiness . Pas- cal represented Christianity as the only balm and cordial that could soothe and alleviate the multiplied miseries of human life ; that could infuse courage and impart consolation under ...
... virtue , his repose , and his happiness . Pas- cal represented Christianity as the only balm and cordial that could soothe and alleviate the multiplied miseries of human life ; that could infuse courage and impart consolation under ...
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... virtue by his own strength . It should likewise point out the proper remedies for this defect ; of which prayer is the chief . Our religion has done all this , and no other has ever taught us to beg of God the power to love and obey him ...
... virtue by his own strength . It should likewise point out the proper remedies for this defect ; of which prayer is the chief . Our religion has done all this , and no other has ever taught us to beg of God the power to love and obey him ...
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... virtue ; they even thought it incompatible with the virtues they professed . No- thing but Christianity knew how to unite what till then had appeared so inconsistent , or to teach men , that so far from humility being incompatible with ...
... virtue ; they even thought it incompatible with the virtues they professed . No- thing but Christianity knew how to unite what till then had appeared so inconsistent , or to teach men , that so far from humility being incompatible with ...
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... their present infirmity ? For not discerning the whole truth , it was impossible for them to arrive at perfect virtue ; some looking upon nature as uncorrupt , and others as irrecoverable , they 30 THOUGHTS ON RELIGION .
... their present infirmity ? For not discerning the whole truth , it was impossible for them to arrive at perfect virtue ; some looking upon nature as uncorrupt , and others as irrecoverable , they 30 THOUGHTS ON RELIGION .
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... virtue , our life , our light , our hope ; and out of him there is nothing but vice , misery , darkness , despair ; nothing but confusion appears in the nature of God , or in the nature of man . CHAPTER XXI . THE SURPRISING ...
... virtue , our life , our light , our hope ; and out of him there is nothing but vice , misery , darkness , despair ; nothing but confusion appears in the nature of God , or in the nature of man . CHAPTER XXI . THE SURPRISING ...
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Page 99 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
Page 137 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 164 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Page 279 - And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
Page 139 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 58 - Who is wise, and he shall understand these things ? prudent, and he shall know them ? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them : but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Page 152 - I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Page 99 - And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Page 99 - And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
Page 283 - ... it is God who worketh in us, both to will and to do of his good pleasure.