The Still Hour: Or, Communion with GodGould and Lincoln, 1860 - 136 Seiten |
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... conscience , it is not the vernacular speech of their experience . As compared with the joy which such language indicates , prayer is , in all that they know of it , a dull duty . Perhaps the characteristic of the feelings of many about ...
... conscience , it is not the vernacular speech of their experience . As compared with the joy which such language indicates , prayer is , in all that they know of it , a dull duty . Perhaps the characteristic of the feelings of many about ...
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... conscience , of which we could not rid ourselves if we wished to do so , and which will not permit us to be at ease with our- selves , if all forms of prayer are abandoned ? Perhaps even so slight a thing as the pain of resistance to ...
... conscience , of which we could not rid ourselves if we wished to do so , and which will not permit us to be at ease with our- selves , if all forms of prayer are abandoned ? Perhaps even so slight a thing as the pain of resistance to ...
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... conscience and good sense , as being what the phraseology of devout affection should be . Ancient forms of prayer are beautiful exceedingly . Their hallowed associations fascinate us like old songs . fall into delicious reverie over ...
... conscience and good sense , as being what the phraseology of devout affection should be . Ancient forms of prayer are beautiful exceedingly . Their hallowed associations fascinate us like old songs . fall into delicious reverie over ...
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... conscience void of offence to all men . His mind is in a sol- emn state , his heart is not insensible to the beauty of the virtues which he seeks . His posture is lowly , his tones sincere , and self- delusion is one of those processes ...
... conscience void of offence to all men . His mind is in a sol- emn state , his heart is not insensible to the beauty of the virtues which he seeks . His posture is lowly , his tones sincere , and self- delusion is one of those processes ...
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... conscience is not so eagle - eyed . But after that glimpse of a hidden sin , how do the clouds of estrangement from God seem to shut him in , dark and damp and chill , and his prayer become like a dismal pattering of rain ! An ambitious ...
... conscience is not so eagle - eyed . But after that glimpse of a hidden sin , how do the clouds of estrangement from God seem to shut him in , dark and damp and chill , and his prayer become like a dismal pattering of rain ! An ambitious ...
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Seite 74 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Seite 11 - I know not how to express otherwise, than by a calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary wilderness, far from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and wrapt and swallowed up in God.
Seite 51 - Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude ; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
Seite 11 - And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, He took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. And as He prayed, the fashion of His countenance was altered, and His raiment was white and glistering.
Seite 51 - O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
Seite 73 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness...
Seite 114 - The eternal regions. Lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold...
Seite 68 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.
Seite 107 - CTILL with thee, O my God, ^ I would desire to be ; By day, by night, at home, abroad, I would be still with thee...
Seite 75 - ... here below; so is the prayer of a good man ; when his affairs have required business, and his business was matter of discipline, and his discipline was to pass upon a sinning person, or had a design of. charity, his duty met with the...