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... centuries ago , yet they are as fresh and vital as if they were penned yesterday . They are the utterances of men who were neither philosophers nor theologians nor saints ; yet they lay bare the inmost springs of life , they supply ...
... centuries ago , yet they are as fresh and vital as if they were penned yesterday . They are the utterances of men who were neither philosophers nor theologians nor saints ; yet they lay bare the inmost springs of life , they supply ...
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... centuries , not at the command of the Bible , or the Church , nor in view of utilities that can be measured by fever - thermometers or credits on bank - accounts . They pray to God as instinctively and inevitably as the root under ...
... centuries , not at the command of the Bible , or the Church , nor in view of utilities that can be measured by fever - thermometers or credits on bank - accounts . They pray to God as instinctively and inevitably as the root under ...
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... century from the savagery and misery that , ages ago , kept itself alive on the acorns of the German forest . Is this true ? Is competition the sole law of life ? If this be so , it is a law that runs through life from beginning to end ...
... century from the savagery and misery that , ages ago , kept itself alive on the acorns of the German forest . Is this true ? Is competition the sole law of life ? If this be so , it is a law that runs through life from beginning to end ...
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... centuries . In this sense there is a struggle for existence . But even the struggle can be as well described by the word " peace " as by the word " war . " Prince Krapotkin , in a recent number of the " Nineteenth Century , " gives ...
... centuries . In this sense there is a struggle for existence . But even the struggle can be as well described by the word " peace " as by the word " war . " Prince Krapotkin , in a recent number of the " Nineteenth Century , " gives ...
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... centuries , we can see that Sinai , and the Mount of Beatitudes , of the Transfig- uration , of the Crucifixion , of the Ascension , all lie in the same range of mountains . They are all summits in the same high table - lands , where ...
... centuries , we can see that Sinai , and the Mount of Beatitudes , of the Transfig- uration , of the Crucifixion , of the Ascension , all lie in the same range of mountains . They are all summits in the same high table - lands , where ...
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Page 257 - And He said unto them, Why are ye troubled ? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts ? Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself: handle Me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have.
Page 185 - Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Page 175 - For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men ; neither are they plagued like other men.
Page 180 - Ye have said, It is vain to serve God : and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts ? And now we call the proud happy ; yea, they that work wickedness are set up ; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
Page 31 - We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us : for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves...
Page 279 - For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Page 33 - Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation : he that believeth shall not make haste.
Page 43 - Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord ; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Page 213 - Another parable put he forth unto them, saying; The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field. But while men slept, his enemy came, and sowed tares among the wheat; and went his way.
Page 227 - Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest, where she may lay her young; even thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my GOD.