 | Julia Wedgwood - Evangelical Revival - 1870 - 426 pages
...that nothing that we should think startling doctrine could have been preached—'Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.' 'O hard sayings! who can hear them ?' writes Wesley, after the quotation, and the exclamation... | |
 | Olive Logan - Actors - 1870 - 708 pages
...the cross. Even his stern apostle, Paul, taught charity as the chief of virtues. "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor * * * and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind ; charity thinketh no evil." "And now abideth faith, hope,... | |
 | Olive Logan - Actors - 1870 - 696 pages
...the cross. Even his stern apostle, Paul, taught charity as the chief of virtues. "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor * * * and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity thinketh no evil." " And now abideth faith, hope,... | |
 | A. Tyndale - 1870 - 472 pages
...is pleasing to Him : see Matthew vi. With regard to almsgiving, St. Paul says, "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." 1 Cor. xiii. 3. Almsgiving, to a generous heart, is one of the easiest works possible ; to... | |
 | William Whewell - Ethics - 1872 - 436 pages
...they are not the results of such affections they are valueless. (1 Cor. xii., 3), Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 614. The first Christians were a small portion • of the civil community in which they lived... | |
 | Olive Logan - Theater - 1871 - 658 pages
...the cross. Even his stern apostle, Paul, taught charity as the chief of virtues. "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor * * * and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind ; charity thinketh no evil." "And now abideth faith, hope,... | |
 | Mrs. H. B. Paull - 1872 - 436 pages
...was long-suffering,' and ' kind,' and ' not envious,' and all that. Besides it says ' If I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.' So now, mamma, I've come to you to help me." " I am glad to find that you think of what you... | |
 | Alexander Murdock Gow - American wit and humor - 1873 - 268 pages
...feelings, no one can be truly benevolent, as it is written in the moral law, " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing" The mere giving of alms, unaccompanied by the true feeling of brotherhood, is not a charity... | |
 | Homes - 1873 - 232 pages
...of relieving distress and giving liberally, He has settled that for us too : ' Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor . . . and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.' ' If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not... | |
 | Edward Harold Browne (bp. of Winchester.) - 1874 - 936 pages
...have placed perfection in SB ling a 1 things, since in i Cor. xiii. 3, we read ' though I give all my goods to feed the poor. . . . and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Calvin also observes, that the young man could not re,illy h:ive kept all the commandments,... | |
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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 
