Things that Matter Most: Short Devotional Readings

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J. Clarke, 1913 - 275 páginas

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Página 198 - Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Página 15 - Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God ; he riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Página 118 - And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not : the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Página 272 - Thy bountiful care What tongue can recite ? It breathes in the air, It shines in the light. It streams from the hills, It descends to the plain, And sweetly distils In the dew and the rain.
Página 252 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath...
Página 59 - Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Página 272 - There's a wideness in God's mercy, Like the wideness of the sea ; There's a kindness in His justice, Which is more than liberty.
Página 18 - For the love of God is broader Than the measures of man's mind, And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind. But we make His love too narrow By false limits of our own, And we magnify His strictness With a zeal He will not own.
Página 179 - Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them ; and saith unto Him, All these things will I give Thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Página 55 - Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

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