As a Woman Thinks

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Houghton Mifflin, 1925 - 313 pages
 

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Page 180 - Righteous (art) thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of (thy) judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? (Wherefore) are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Page 35 - Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Page 150 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
Page 36 - I stretch forth my hands unto thee : my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. 7 Hear me, speedily, O LORD : my spirit faileth : hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Page 143 - Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness" sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Page 180 - Righteous art Thou, O Lord, when I plead with Thee : yet let me talk with Thee of Thy judgments : wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root : they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit : Thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
Page 180 - How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds ; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
Page 304 - The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that all these years I've been going around tormented by — hm Hilda.
Page 4 - What follows is such a biography; not an analysis, nor a confession, but the drama I have lived in thinking and believing; how the mind I have, determined my conduct, courage, cowardice, and literally created the life I have lived in spite of everything.
Page 94 - ... are guilty : thou didst give us a white robe, purer than the snow, we return it to thee to-day unfit to be looked upon by thine eyes. Yet thou art plenteous in forgiveness and thy pardons are a great multitude, yea, more than the waves of the sea, and thou dost cast our sin behind thee and make it as far from us as the east is from the west, and thy delight is to relieve from the burden and the sting of sin.

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