The Gate of Death: A Diary ..." ... The record of the sincere and faltering thoughts of one who was suddenly and unexpectedly confronted with death, and who, in the midst of a very ordinary and commonplace life, with no deep reserves of wisdom, faith, or tenderness, had just to interpret it as best he could ... that last adventure that shall divide us from all the familiar things that we hold so dear ... even, it may be, from ourselves ..."--Introduction |
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Page 99 - And I said, This is my infirmity : but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Page 99 - I call to remembrance my song : and in the night I commune with mine own heart, and search out my spirits.
Page 78 - I was in trouble. 13 I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices, with the incense of rams : I will offer bullocks and goats. 14 O come hither, and hearken, all ye that fear God : and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul.
Page 229 - Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. 9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Page 235 - In our time we are agreed that we 'make our souls' out of some one of the great poets of ancient times, or out of Shelley or Wordsworth, or Goethe or Balzac, or Flaubert, or Count Tolstoy...
Page 82 - But as for me, I am a worm, and no man : a very scorn of men, and the outcast of the people. 7 All they that see me...
Page 99 - Is his mercy clean gone for ever : and is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore...
Page 80 - I WAITED patiently for the Lord ; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, Even praise unto our God : Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in the Lord.