Discipline, by the author of Letters to my unknown friends1850 |
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Page 13
... principle of obedience , no discipline of the will , no submission to the powers that be , because they are " ordained of God . " * Their conduct would be exactly the same whether it were recommended to their judgment by those placed in ...
... principle of obedience , no discipline of the will , no submission to the powers that be , because they are " ordained of God . " * Their conduct would be exactly the same whether it were recommended to their judgment by those placed in ...
Page 15
... principles may be weak and still in the early dawn of their being , intervals at least of thorough peaceful resignation must be their result . When we know that " It is the Lord , " it is comparatively easy to add , " let Him * 1 Peter ...
... principles may be weak and still in the early dawn of their being , intervals at least of thorough peaceful resignation must be their result . When we know that " It is the Lord , " it is comparatively easy to add , " let Him * 1 Peter ...
Page 20
... of the existence of the principle of obedience . Here comes the daily cross to the self - willed . The time , or the labour , or the comfort , or the social intercourse which would have been readily sacrificed for 20 SELF - WILL .
... of the existence of the principle of obedience . Here comes the daily cross to the self - willed . The time , or the labour , or the comfort , or the social intercourse which would have been readily sacrificed for 20 SELF - WILL .
Page 31
... principle of obedience surely solves every difficulty as soon as it arises . That will be your only safeguard to protect you from error on either side of your path , and that must itself be maintained by prayer and watch- fulness and ...
... principle of obedience surely solves every difficulty as soon as it arises . That will be your only safeguard to protect you from error on either side of your path , and that must itself be maintained by prayer and watch- fulness and ...
Page 34
... many insubordinate spirits would shrink from confessing the only justifiable principle of their insubordination , that it was by an —— * Hebrews , xiii . 17 . unlucky chance , and not under heavenly guidance , that 34 SELF - WILL .
... many insubordinate spirits would shrink from confessing the only justifiable principle of their insubordination , that it was by an —— * Hebrews , xiii . 17 . unlucky chance , and not under heavenly guidance , that 34 SELF - WILL .
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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.
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