Discipline, by the author of Letters to my unknown friends1850 |
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... authority over us , the first instinctive movements of our fallen nature are opposition and disobedience . The frequency and strength of these emotions are ordinarily in proportion to the general strength of the character . Stubbornness ...
... authority over us , the first instinctive movements of our fallen nature are opposition and disobedience . The frequency and strength of these emotions are ordinarily in proportion to the general strength of the character . Stubbornness ...
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... are " ordained of God . " Their conduct would be exactly the same whether it were recommended to their judgment by those placed in authority * Romans , xiii . 1 . с over them , or by those who had no such SELF - WILL . 13.
... are " ordained of God . " Their conduct would be exactly the same whether it were recommended to their judgment by those placed in authority * Romans , xiii . 1 . с over them , or by those who had no such SELF - WILL . 13.
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Sydney Warburton. over them , or by those who had no such authority . Much of the unhappiness of daily life arises from the defective or mistaken or uninfluential opinions usually held of the nature and the duty of obedience . Even ...
Sydney Warburton. over them , or by those who had no such authority . Much of the unhappiness of daily life arises from the defective or mistaken or uninfluential opinions usually held of the nature and the duty of obedience . Even ...
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... authority over them . When , indeed , the crossing of the will comes directly from God , there is often profession of submission ; in calmer and happier moments that submission may be thoroughly felt . Where there is an habi- tual ...
... authority over them . When , indeed , the crossing of the will comes directly from God , there is often profession of submission ; in calmer and happier moments that submission may be thoroughly felt . Where there is an habi- tual ...
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... authority than many instances of sullen and unwill- ing obedience . And those who remon- strate the most firmly , and oppose the most steadily , will be those who will sub- mit with the best grace , because with the most enlightened ...
... authority than many instances of sullen and unwill- ing obedience . And those who remon- strate the most firmly , and oppose the most steadily , will be those who will sub- mit with the best grace , because with the most enlightened ...
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Page 129 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 57 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.