Discipline, by the author of Letters to my unknown friends1850 |
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... day's petty trials , set before us , in the light of eternity , would fill the heart with grateful and admiring love : through faith we might view our daily life by a faint reflection of that light , even now , even here . Though in ...
... day's petty trials , set before us , in the light of eternity , would fill the heart with grateful and admiring love : through faith we might view our daily life by a faint reflection of that light , even now , even here . Though in ...
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... day's discipline . Pursue suspicion to certainty . Try former as well as present instances in which you have to ... day be asked you ) whether it is not your own self - will , rather than the injustice of others , that caused the pain ...
... day's discipline . Pursue suspicion to certainty . Try former as well as present instances in which you have to ... day be asked you ) whether it is not your own self - will , rather than the injustice of others , that caused the pain ...
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... day's cross will be the occasions in which your self - will is excited , wounded , crossed . It may be from the ... day , if rightly used , may throw that light upon many actions of your past life and hitherto unsuspectedly erroneous ...
... day's cross will be the occasions in which your self - will is excited , wounded , crossed . It may be from the ... day , if rightly used , may throw that light upon many actions of your past life and hitherto unsuspectedly erroneous ...
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... life is wisely and skilfully adapted . You have prayed this morning to be kept from sin , -to be kept especially on your guard against the particular sin in- tended to be the subject of this day's self- examination 40 PRIDE .
... life is wisely and skilfully adapted . You have prayed this morning to be kept from sin , -to be kept especially on your guard against the particular sin in- tended to be the subject of this day's self- examination 40 PRIDE .
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Sydney Warburton. tended to be the subject of this day's self- examination . You have not , therefore , ventured into ... day that you are to look for the ex- hibition of this subtle sin . No ; -it was when you felt yourself to be in the ...
Sydney Warburton. tended to be the subject of this day's self- examination . You have not , therefore , ventured into ... day that you are to look for the ex- hibition of this subtle sin . No ; -it was when you felt yourself to be in the ...
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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.