ThoughtsP. F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 451 pagina's |
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Pagina 29
... present in all our im- potence . Our senses perceive no extreme . Too much sound deafens us ; too much light dazzles us ; too great distance or proximity hinders our view . Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tend to ...
... present in all our im- potence . Our senses perceive no extreme . Too much sound deafens us ; too much light dazzles us ; too great distance or proximity hinders our view . Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tend to ...
Pagina 47
... present state . We are only troubled by the fears which we , and not nature , give ourselves , for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not . As nature makes us always unhappy in every state ...
... present state . We are only troubled by the fears which we , and not nature , give ourselves , for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not . As nature makes us always unhappy in every state ...
Pagina 64
... present . We anticipate the future as too slow in coming , as if in order to hasten its course ; or we recall the past , to stop its too rapid flight . So imprudent are we that we wander in the times which are not ours , and do not ...
... present . We anticipate the future as too slow in coming , as if in order to hasten its course ; or we recall the past , to stop its too rapid flight . So imprudent are we that we wander in the times which are not ours , and do not ...
Pagina 65
... present ; and if we think of it , it is only to take light from it to arrange the future . The present is never our end . The past and the present are our means ; the future alone is our end . So we never live , but we hope to live ...
... present ; and if we think of it , it is only to take light from it to arrange the future . The present is never our end . The past and the present are our means ; the future alone is our end . So we never live , but we hope to live ...
Pagina 82
... present state , ignorant of what I am or of what I ought to do , I know My heart inclines neither my condition nor my duty . wholly to know , where is the true good , in order to follow it ; nothing would be too dear to me for eternity ...
... present state , ignorant of what I am or of what I ought to do , I know My heart inclines neither my condition nor my duty . wholly to know , where is the true good , in order to follow it ; nothing would be too dear to me for eternity ...
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Pagina 251 - SEVENTY WEEKS are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.
Pagina 258 - The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary : he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Pagina 339 - Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Pagina 244 - Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Pagina 276 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. 25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Pagina 260 - I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth ; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Pagina 246 - The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock : and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
Pagina 252 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Pagina 251 - Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
Pagina 260 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.