The Still Hour: Or, Communion with GodGould and Lincoln, 1860 - 136 Seiten |
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... duty as distinct from a privilege . It is a duty which , they cannot deny , is often uninviting , even irksome . If some of us should attempt to define the advantage we derive from a performance of the duty , we might be surprised , per ...
... duty as distinct from a privilege . It is a duty which , they cannot deny , is often uninviting , even irksome . If some of us should attempt to define the advantage we derive from a performance of the duty , we might be surprised , per ...
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... duty . The joy of hope , at least , will vitalize the duty . The prospect of gaining an object , will always affect thus the expression of intense desire . The feeling which will become spontane- ous with a Christian , under the ...
... duty . The joy of hope , at least , will vitalize the duty . The prospect of gaining an object , will always affect thus the expression of intense desire . The feeling which will become spontane- ous with a Christian , under the ...
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... so free from trammel in its mystery , so much resembling the power of God because of its mystery , and yet could we find it to be in our own experience an insipid — duty ? VI . AS THE HART PANTETH AFTER THE WATER - 48 THE STILL HOUR .
... so free from trammel in its mystery , so much resembling the power of God because of its mystery , and yet could we find it to be in our own experience an insipid — duty ? VI . AS THE HART PANTETH AFTER THE WATER - 48 THE STILL HOUR .
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... duty met with infirmities of a man , * and the instrument became stronger than the prime agent , and raised a tem- pest , and overruled the man ; and then his prayer was broken , and his thoughts were troubled , and his words went up ...
... duty met with infirmities of a man , * and the instrument became stronger than the prime agent , and raised a tem- pest , and overruled the man ; and then his prayer was broken , and his thoughts were troubled , and his words went up ...
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... duty which we have no time to enjoy ? Do we enjoy anything which we do in a hurry ? Enjoyment presupposes something of men- tal leisure . How often do we say of a pleasure , I wanted more time to enjoy it to my heart's content . ' But ...
... duty which we have no time to enjoy ? Do we enjoy anything which we do in a hurry ? Enjoyment presupposes something of men- tal leisure . How often do we say of a pleasure , I wanted more time to enjoy it to my heart's content . ' But ...
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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...