Discipline, by the author of Letters to my unknown friends1850 |
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... mind may gradually adapt itself to a new , a clearer medium , and each hour reveal to the believer stronger evi- dences of guiding wisdom and protecting love . It is an indisputable fact , that each of us has a 66 daily cross " to bear ...
... mind may gradually adapt itself to a new , a clearer medium , and each hour reveal to the believer stronger evi- dences of guiding wisdom and protecting love . It is an indisputable fact , that each of us has a 66 daily cross " to bear ...
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... mind with which these circumstances are met . It has been truly said , that " the pain is not in that which seems to wound us , but in ourselves . " And thus the small annoyances of every - day life may serve to show us which are the ...
... mind with which these circumstances are met . It has been truly said , that " the pain is not in that which seems to wound us , but in ourselves . " And thus the small annoyances of every - day life may serve to show us which are the ...
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... mind , blaze up at any approach to a direct assertion of authority . By feelings such as these , how much may be unnecessarily added to the weight and bitterness of the daily cross ! How much more difficult some unpalatable act of ...
... mind , blaze up at any approach to a direct assertion of authority . By feelings such as these , how much may be unnecessarily added to the weight and bitterness of the daily cross ! How much more difficult some unpalatable act of ...
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... themselves to our own judgment , there is really no exercise of the spirit of obedience at all . * This is a truth that cannot be too strongly im- * 1 Peter , ii , 13—25 . pressed on the mind . It may It may be 24 SELF - WILL .
... themselves to our own judgment , there is really no exercise of the spirit of obedience at all . * This is a truth that cannot be too strongly im- * 1 Peter , ii , 13—25 . pressed on the mind . It may It may be 24 SELF - WILL .
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Sydney Warburton. pressed on the mind . It may It may be experi- mentally impressed on it by the daily cross when meekly and patiently borne . Observe carefully , during the course of this day , how and when it is that you are pained by ...
Sydney Warburton. pressed on the mind . It may It may be experi- mentally impressed on it by the daily cross when meekly and patiently borne . Observe carefully , during the course of this day , how and when it is that you are pained by ...
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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.