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Page ix
... light of the past , we learn the lesson of patience ; we cease to torment ourselves about the future . In peace and hope we accept the trials of the present , we strive to fulfil our duties , and we wait in faith , and trust God's hour ...
... light of the past , we learn the lesson of patience ; we cease to torment ourselves about the future . In peace and hope we accept the trials of the present , we strive to fulfil our duties , and we wait in faith , and trust God's hour ...
Page xi
... light up the history of the moral world . with a wondrous gleam . The Incarnation of the Eternal Word , the life and death of Jesus Christ , His work on earth justify the history xii of man , the patience of the just , INTRODUCTION . xi.
... light up the history of the moral world . with a wondrous gleam . The Incarnation of the Eternal Word , the life and death of Jesus Christ , His work on earth justify the history xii of man , the patience of the just , INTRODUCTION . xi.
Page xv
... light through the darkness . Confess that the Church is rising purified out of the fire of tribulation ; confess that persecu- tion makes the holy yet more holy ; confess that God's grace abounds for the conversion of from sin and error ...
... light through the darkness . Confess that the Church is rising purified out of the fire of tribulation ; confess that persecu- tion makes the holy yet more holy ; confess that God's grace abounds for the conversion of from sin and error ...
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... light , without the shadow of a doubt that the lambient air will uphold the little fluttering wings with which it carries its joyous song to the gates of heaven . Underneath us are the " everlasting arms , " " * and therefore we " dwell ...
... light , without the shadow of a doubt that the lambient air will uphold the little fluttering wings with which it carries its joyous song to the gates of heaven . Underneath us are the " everlasting arms , " " * and therefore we " dwell ...
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... . That knowledge , that seeing , is the " light of glory . " Its perfection is only compatible with the Beatific Vision , which vision is impossible to mere man in his condition of viator , or pilgrim 6 THE ETERNAL YEARS .
... . That knowledge , that seeing , is the " light of glory . " Its perfection is only compatible with the Beatific Vision , which vision is impossible to mere man in his condition of viator , or pilgrim 6 THE ETERNAL YEARS .
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Page 52 - For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's.
Page 75 - I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
Page 115 - For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Page 101 - And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God : but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables...
Page 62 - And it shall come to pass, while My glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with My hand until I have passed by.
Page 145 - I reckon, that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come, that shall be revealed in us.
Page 146 - For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
Page 3 - And in the morning : To-day there will be a storm, for the sky is red and lowering. You know then how to discern the face of the sky : and can you not know the signs of the times...
Page 141 - And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then the Son also himself shall be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
Page 60 - Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.