Brief Essays and SketchesSaml. Harris & Company, 1885 - 158 páginas |
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acquainted afterwards Aldersgate Street Amalie von Lasaulx amongst Archdeacon Hare beautiful became blessing brother called character child CHILD WORLD Christ Christian Church Church of England conversion Daniel Macmillan daughter death desire devoted difficulties divine doctrine doubt duty early earnest ELIZABETH PRENTISS endeavour enter experience faith father favour feeling felt FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL friends Galileo Galileo Galilei girls give God's habits hand happy Havergal heart Heaven hospital husband influence of detail interest Janet Hamilton kind labour lady learned less letter lives London looked Lord Mary Carpenter means mental mind mother natural never nursing opinion peace Prentiss regarded religion religious Roman Curia seems sense Sister Augustine Sister Dora Sisters of Mercy soul spiritual superior sympathy teaching Temperance things total abstinence true truth turn woman women words writes wrote young
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Página 92 - And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say : for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
Página 82 - Sister Augustine, Superior of the Sisters of Charity at the St. Johannis Hospital at Bonn. Authorised Translation by HANS THARAU, from the German "Memorials of AMALIE VON LASAULX.
Página 65 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the spirit.
Página 47 - I long to have it do good. I never had such desires about anything in my life, and I never sat down to write without first praying that I might not be suffered to write anything that would do harm, and that, on the contrary, I might be taught to say what would do good. And it has been a great comfort to me that every word of praise I ever have received from others concerning it has been — 'It will do good.
Página 101 - ... the best measure you could get of what intellect is in the man. Which circumstance is vital and shall stand prominent; which unessential, fit to be suppressed; where is the true beginning, the true sequence and ending? To find out this, you task the whole force of insight that is in the man. He must understand the thing; according to the depth of his understanding, will the fitness of his answer be.
Página 151 - COME to me, O ye children ! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. Ye open the eastern windows, That look towards the sun, Where thoughts are singing swallows And the brooks of morning run.
Página 64 - Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven
Página 53 - People often say they have so much to live for; I can't feel so, though I am not only willing, but glad to live while my husband and children need me; and yet — and yet — to have this problem solved, and to be forever with the Lord!
Página 45 - ... think she thought it so. Oh, for what would I give up the happiness of praying for a holy heart — of striving, struggling for it! Yes, it is indeed true that we are to be saved simply, only, apart from our own goodness, through the love of Christ. But who can believe himself thus chosen of God — who can think of and hold communion with Infinite Holiness, and not long for the Divine image in his own soul ? It is a mystery to me — these strange doctrines. Is not the fruit of love aspiration...
Página 36 - Son cleanseth us from all sin,' and then it was made plain to me that He who had thus cleansed me had power to keep me clean ; so I just utterly yielded myself to Him, and utterly trusted Him to keep me.