 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death. . . . Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.  Random Rambles - Page 84by Louise Chandler Moulton - 1881 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Jay - 1814 - 552 pages
...should not henceforth live unto themselves, but to him that died for them and rose again. Love — Love is strong as death ; many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. You do not so strikingly see the amazing vigor of this principle in religion,... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 592 pages
...to him distinctively, " Go, tell my disciples, and Peter !" And how could he love Him enough ? And love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love ; neither can the floods drown it. — The rest of the disciples followed slowly, but surely, dragging the net. Had... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...young. But how the mother ventures and hangs regardless of danger over the infected body of her child. Love is strong as death ; many waters cannot quench love ; neither can the floods drown it. But no love will bear a comparison with his — " the love of Christ passeth knowledge."... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...young. But how the mother ventures and hangs regardless of danger over the infected body of her child. Love is strong as death ; many waters cannot quench love; neither can the floods drown it. But no love will bear a comparison with his — " the love of Christ passeth knowledge."... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1843 - 214 pages
...But if we look upon love as a principle in the soul, then we apply to it the language of Solomon, " love is strong as death : many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." However we may view and illustrate the matter, the idea which the Apostle gives... | |
 | 1853 - 730 pages
...the missionary enterprise. Other motives may fail — have failed ; but " charity never faileth." " Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love ; neither can the floods drown it." The constraining love of Christ cannot be overcome by opposition, nor be destroyed... | |
 | Manual, Leopold John BERNAYS - 1845 - 200 pages
...faith and to die in faith. TEXTs. Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love cmereth all sins. Prov. x. 12. Love is strong as death. . . . Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly... | |
 | John Charles Ryle (bp. of Liverpool.) - 1857 - 404 pages
...consequences in testifying their affection to their Saviour. So true are the words of Canticles : " Love is strong as death, — many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." (Cant. viii. 6, 7.) Why is it that we see so little of this strong love to Jesus... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1857 - 284 pages
...the Song of Solomon viii. 6, 7. " Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." That the apostle, in saying that love never faileth, has reference to its continuation... | |
 | A M. Thompson - 1858 - 456 pages
...which your afflicted families came out ' in more than Egyptian haste.' " "Ah! Madame," said Elize, "'love is strong as death !' many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it." " And is love and duty to your father, Maiden, your sole aim and object in so large... | |
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