The Still Hour: Or, Communion with GodGould and Lincoln, 1860 - 136 Seiten |
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... only echoed the wail which had come down , through living hearts , from the patriarch , whose story is the oldest known literature in any lan- guage . A consciousness of the absence of God is one of the standard incidents of religious.
... only echoed the wail which had come down , through living hearts , from the patriarch , whose story is the oldest known literature in any lan- guage . A consciousness of the absence of God is one of the standard incidents of religious.
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... living soul with a living God . Are there not many closet hours , ' in which the chief feeling of the worshipper is an oppressed consciousness of the absence of reality from his own exercises ? He has PAYSON . 9 no words which are , as ...
... living soul with a living God . Are there not many closet hours , ' in which the chief feeling of the worshipper is an oppressed consciousness of the absence of reality from his own exercises ? He has PAYSON . 9 no words which are , as ...
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... living , whatever may be his religious state , who has not an interest in making it the theme of inquiry . ' Never any more wonder , ' says an old writer , ' that men pray so seldom . For there are very few that feel the relish , and ...
... living , whatever may be his religious state , who has not an interest in making it the theme of inquiry . ' Never any more wonder , ' says an old writer , ' that men pray so seldom . For there are very few that feel the relish , and ...
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... vacuum . One of the most impressive mysteries of the condition of man on this earth , is his deprivation of all visible and audible repre- sentations of God . We seem to be living in a state of seclusion from the rest of the 2.
... vacuum . One of the most impressive mysteries of the condition of man on this earth , is his deprivation of all visible and audible repre- sentations of God . We seem to be living in a state of seclusion from the rest of the 2.
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... living God , living close to itself , and in vital relations to its own des- tiny except as a retributive Power . - The only thing that forbids life , in any of its experiences , to be a life of retribution to an impenitent sinner , is ...
... living God , living close to itself , and in vital relations to its own des- tiny except as a retributive Power . - The only thing that forbids life , in any of its experiences , to be a life of retribution to an impenitent sinner , is ...
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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...