God: Conferences Delivered at Notre Dame in Paris by the Rev. Père Lacordaire; Tr. from the French, with the Author's PermissionChapman & Hall, 1870 - 260 pages |
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... ourselves ; love is a movement which draws us out of ourselves towards that object in order to unite it to us and ourselves to it , and thus to accomplish in its fulness the mystery of relations , that is to say , the mystery of unity ...
... ourselves ; love is a movement which draws us out of ourselves towards that object in order to unite it to us and ourselves to it , and thus to accomplish in its fulness the mystery of relations , that is to say , the mystery of unity ...
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... ourselves in order to seek our life , to appease our thirst for knowledge , our hunger for love . And instead of turning to the only source of truth and charity , which is God , we wed ourselves to nature , which is but a shadow ; to ...
... ourselves in order to seek our life , to appease our thirst for knowledge , our hunger for love . And instead of turning to the only source of truth and charity , which is God , we wed ourselves to nature , which is but a shadow ; to ...
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... ourselves in a hopeless effort , we ask from our own powerlessness the accomplishment of the one and triple mystery which is divine felicity ; we endeavour to satisfy ourselves in the pride of a solitary thought , in the delight of ...
... ourselves in a hopeless effort , we ask from our own powerlessness the accomplishment of the one and triple mystery which is divine felicity ; we endeavour to satisfy ourselves in the pride of a solitary thought , in the delight of ...
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... ourselves logically in presence of this question : God being the admitted principle of things , how have they emanated from him ? By what process , and above all from what motives ? Here we begin to touch more directly the secret of ...
... ourselves logically in presence of this question : God being the admitted principle of things , how have they emanated from him ? By what process , and above all from what motives ? Here we begin to touch more directly the secret of ...
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... ourselves in order to have an idea of it ? Is it not enough that the force of logic constrains us to affirm its existence ? I grant for the moment that reason in no way seizes the creating act ; but it sees that the world is neither ...
... ourselves in order to have an idea of it ? Is it not enough that the force of logic constrains us to affirm its existence ? I grant for the moment that reason in no way seizes the creating act ; but it sees that the world is neither ...
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Page 248 - Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Page 97 - 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. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Page 236 - Let us make man to our image and likeness, and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
Page 120 - Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in; naked, and you covered me; sick and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.
Page 97 - 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 243 - And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Page 131 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 198 - For the word of God is living and effectual, and more piercing than any twoedged sword : and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also, and the marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Page 133 - Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.
Page 42 - And there are three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one.