Discipline, by the author of Letters to my unknown friends1850 |
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Page 30
... difficulty of discerning the cases where obedience , be it ever so opposed to taste and inclination , is an imperative duty , and where on the other hand , it may be conscientiously withheld . Impartiality of judgment on this perplexing ...
... difficulty of discerning the cases where obedience , be it ever so opposed to taste and inclination , is an imperative duty , and where on the other hand , it may be conscientiously withheld . Impartiality of judgment on this perplexing ...
Page 31
... 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 self - denial and self - control , for the ...
... 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 self - denial and self - control , for the ...
Page 32
... difficult part of your work is over . The empire of sin is an empire of darkness ; its power is effectually shaken when light enough enters to reveal its true aspect . The discipline of this day , if rightly used , may throw that light ...
... difficult part of your work is over . The empire of sin is an empire of darkness ; its power is effectually shaken when light enough enters to reveal its true aspect . The discipline of this day , if rightly used , may throw that light ...
Page 39
... to see the evil thing , and to flee from it . But to see it ; there is the difficulty . Pride assumes , alternately , the most noble , the most dignified , the most engaging forms . Never will it allow us to view it E 2.
... to see the evil thing , and to flee from it . But to see it ; there is the difficulty . Pride assumes , alternately , the most noble , the most dignified , the most engaging forms . Never will it allow us to view it E 2.
Page 40
... difficult part of the conflict against the sin would be already over . A refined nature would shrink from the meanness of pride ; but until that fearful or glorious hour , when we shall see sin in the light issuing from the throne of ...
... difficult part of the conflict against the sin would be already over . A refined nature would shrink from the meanness of pride ; but until that fearful or glorious hour , when we shall see sin in the light issuing from the throne of ...
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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.