Christ and His ReligionR. Carter, 1880 - 331 pages |
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action angels appear ARREST DECAY beauty behold Bible Bibliotheca Sacra blessed blessedness book of Revelation called character Chris Christian Church city of God conscience consciousness dark death DECAY IN RELIGION divine divine grace duty emotion eternal ethics evil fact faculty faith feeling glory gospel happy heart heaven heavenly Herodotus holy hope idea ideal infinite Jesus John Gerson kind kingdom light ligion live look lutra lutron ment midst mind moral nature ness never pain peace perfect law person piety pious pleasant pleasure praise prayer principle pure purity race reach Redeemer redemption RELIGION OF CHRIST religious rest righteousness river of God ROBERT CARTER Saviour seems seen sense simply sink sinless sins soul sound sphere stand supernatural temple of heaven thee things thou art thought tian tion touch truth virtue whole words worship
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Page 227 - 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 227 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Page 224 - Remember to read over these Resolutions once a week. 1. Resolved, That / will do whatsoever I think to be most to the glory of God and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration ; without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriads of ages hence.
Page 98 - And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
Page 82 - Thus soul-sick was I, and tormented, accusing myself much more severely than my wont, rolling and turning me in my chain, till that were wholly broken, whereby I now was but just, but still was, held. And Thou, O Lord...
Page 265 - ... who gave it to a third ; and so it went through all the ten without any one choosing to be the murderer. The mother received her child back, and the men went out of the house and stood near the door, and there blamed and reproached one another, chiefly, however, accusing the man who had first had the child in his arms, because he had not done as had been agreed upon.
Page 47 - When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
Page 79 - Creator, that not only of holy men, but also of the holy angels, it can be said that "the love of God is shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto them.
Page 43 - I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again.
Page 136 - O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.