Discipline, by the author of Letters to my unknown friends1850 |
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... feel- ings , for your convenience , for your tem- poral advantage . This is a cross certainly , a severe cross , but " take it up " patiently , conscientiously , believingly take it up as appointed for you ... pain , the bitterness ...
... feel- ings , for your convenience , for your tem- poral advantage . This is a cross certainly , a severe cross , but " take it up " patiently , conscientiously , believingly take it up as appointed for you ... pain , the bitterness ...
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... you an unreasonable claim , in a haughty tone and in an overbearing manner . If this wounds you very much , is it not your pride that is wounded ? Being thus , by the pain you feel , set on your guard against your besetting sin , you ...
... you an unreasonable claim , in a haughty tone and in an overbearing manner . If this wounds you very much , is it not your pride that is wounded ? Being thus , by the pain you feel , set on your guard against your besetting sin , you ...
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... you ought to have neither views nor interests in common ? and has pain been inflicted by their marked neglect , or ... feel acutely the dislike excited , the isolation caused by it . Their great danger , however , is lest they ...
... you ought to have neither views nor interests in common ? and has pain been inflicted by their marked neglect , or ... feel acutely the dislike excited , the isolation caused by it . Their great danger , however , is lest they ...
Page 67
... you may easily ascertain that the irritation you feel arises from wounded vanity . The more conscious you are of deserving the rebuke , the more pain it will give . On such occa- sions try to disarm the anger of your own feelings by an ...
... you may easily ascertain that the irritation you feel arises from wounded vanity . The more conscious you are of deserving the rebuke , the more pain it will give . On such occa- sions try to disarm the anger of your own feelings by an ...
Page 79
... pain you feel at your loss marks out the degree of your want of faith in the pro- mise of God . If you believed that He would never leave you , you would also believe that His presence would be far more to you than any earthly ...
... pain you feel at your loss marks out the degree of your want of faith in the pro- mise of God . If you believed that He would never leave you , you would also believe that His presence would be far more to you than any earthly ...
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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.