 ... by Thomas Carlyle. Now, mark ! we are all going wrong, and, though doing our' best in the state of life to which it has pleased God to call us...  Nature's Mighty Wonders - Page 158by Richard Newton - 1871 - 185 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Irish pulpit - 1827 - 600 pages
...glory to our Master, or wish to appropriate part to ourselves ? For instance, when doing any duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us, we may satisfy our fellow-men, and gain their approbation, but if we neglect to thank God for giving... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 276 pages
...natural temper and good spirits, or, in better words than mine, a disposition to ' be contented in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us.' " "I never heard the catechism better enforced," said De Vere, smiling; " but there mifst still either... | |
 | Sermons - 1827 - 428 pages
...glory to our Master, or wish to appropriate part to ourselves ? For instance, when doing any duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us, we may satisfy our fellow-men, and gain their approbation, but if we neglect to thank God for giving... | |
 | William Dealtry - 1827 - 700 pages
...reasonable attention to those pursuits which our situation demands. We are bound to do our duty in the state of life to which it has pleased God to call us. But He does, in the most decisive terms, call upon us to make the concerns of the soul the first object,... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...reasonable attention to those pursuits which our situation demands. We are bound to do our duty in the state of life to which it has pleased God to call us. But He does, in the most decisive terms, call upon us to make the concerns of the soul the first object,... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1835 - 608 pages
...general application ; and the point on which I have ventured to write, cheerful contentment " in the state of life to which it has pleased God to call us," is a lesson that we all require to learn. Far be it from me to assert or to imply that the class of... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1837 - 408 pages
...holiness, and, more particularly, an unceasing attention to those particular duties, which belong to that state of life, to which it has pleased God to call us. What others possess is nothing to us : — but, of what we ourselves possess, be it much or little,... | |
 | Henry Edward J. Howard (hon.) - 1840 - 340 pages
...though afterwards it was remembered to his advantage. Let us do our duty, as Christians and citizens, in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us, without repining, should we apparently gain nothing thereby ; sooner or later we are sure to reap,... | |
 | Oxford movement - 1841 - 362 pages
...really do endeavor, without comparing our own condition to that of others, " to do our own duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us." Unless this he our frame of mind and course of practice, we cannot properly be said to possess " Godliness... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 772 pages
...one only and sufficient sacrifice which Christ once offered for all men ! Oh that whilst we labour in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us, we may set our affections on that better life in heaven to which He has by Christ invited us ! Man... | |
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