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... sure that we are all agreed about the being of God ; is there no doubt about the question whether God is ; have we nothing to ask but the question what He is ? " My answer is , Undoubtedly I am right , and you yourself are my witness ...
... sure that we are all agreed about the being of God ; is there no doubt about the question whether God is ; have we nothing to ask but the question what He is ? " My answer is , Undoubtedly I am right , and you yourself are my witness ...
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... sure of all this ? I am not prepared to go as far as you . If this is the experience of religious minds , it is not mine - I would that it were ; but I can find no trace on the field of history or in the field of present - day ...
... sure of all this ? I am not prepared to go as far as you . If this is the experience of religious minds , it is not mine - I would that it were ; but I can find no trace on the field of history or in the field of present - day ...
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... sure ? any point where we touch the reality ? Yes , personality is the ultimate reality . The only thing in the wide universe of which you can be sure is soul . Things may not be what they seem , but when you have spoken with your ...
... sure ? any point where we touch the reality ? Yes , personality is the ultimate reality . The only thing in the wide universe of which you can be sure is soul . Things may not be what they seem , but when you have spoken with your ...
Page 67
... sure I am within the mark when I say that both within and without the Church there are more men with a burning sense of sin than any preacher or all preachers put together will reach within the next week . The sense of sin has changed ...
... sure I am within the mark when I say that both within and without the Church there are more men with a burning sense of sin than any preacher or all preachers put together will reach within the next week . The sense of sin has changed ...
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... sure of a congregation , for there is at least one in every pew . He may have been right , he may have been wrong , but this is certain , that in a con- gregation of the size of this present one there are some whose noble nature has ...
... sure of a congregation , for there is at least one in every pew . He may have been right , he may have been wrong , but this is certain , that in a con- gregation of the size of this present one there are some whose noble nature has ...
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Page 106 - Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor ; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 247 - Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
Page 233 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Page 62 - The healing of his seamless dress Is by our beds of pain : We touch him in life's throng and press, And we are whole again.
Page 63 - We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down ; In vain we search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is he : And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee.
Page 213 - Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Page 159 - Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. " 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want.
Page 247 - Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
Page 22 - When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars which Thou hast ordained ; what is man, that Thou art mindful of him ? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him ? For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 53 - Why therefore should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others, that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee ? ARCHBISHOP TRENCH.