Choice notes on the Gospel of s. Luke, drawn from old and new sources

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Macmillan, 1869 - 384 pages
 

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Page 365 - But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping ; and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre, and seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
Page 69 - And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days. 32 And they were astonished at his doctrine : for his word was with power.
Page 90 - Christ, and drink his blood; then we dwell in Christ, and Christ in us; we are one with Christ, and Christ with us...
Page 29 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 169 - He had disparaged himself by so dirty an employment"; his answer was, that "the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight...
Page 327 - And he took bread, and • gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body, which is given for you : This do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new Testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
Page 352 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided : they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
Page 49 - What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Page 263 - Wherefore we acknowledge a dutiful necessity of doing well, but the meritorious dignity of doing well we utterly renounce. We see how far we are from the perfect righteousness of the law ; the little fruit which we have in holiness...
Page 371 - Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection.

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