Stumbling-blocksTicknor and Fields, 1864 - 435 páginas |
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... person ask ; and many people seem to fancy that when a man joins the church he professes to be good , better than other people ; and they ac- cordingly set themselves to work to ascertain and prove that he is not . But is there a church ...
... person ask ; and many people seem to fancy that when a man joins the church he professes to be good , better than other people ; and they ac- cordingly set themselves to work to ascertain and prove that he is not . But is there a church ...
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... person in whose salvation she was interested , the presence of one , two , or a dozen others was no obstacle to exhortation . " Dear Mr. A. , won't you seek religion ? Promise me that you will seek religion . " I have heard a person ...
... person in whose salvation she was interested , the presence of one , two , or a dozen others was no obstacle to exhortation . " Dear Mr. A. , won't you seek religion ? Promise me that you will seek religion . " I have heard a person ...
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... you have put to every person you meet the ques- tion , " How do you feel in your mind " ? The human heart remains ever an unsolved and in- soluble problem . Only by careful study and un- ceasing 34 THE FITNESS OF THINGS .
... you have put to every person you meet the ques- tion , " How do you feel in your mind " ? The human heart remains ever an unsolved and in- soluble problem . Only by careful study and un- ceasing 34 THE FITNESS OF THINGS .
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... from indifference or laziness . And here let me say , my irreligious friend , that you can , if you choose , wrest my words , as the words of better and wiser persons than I have been wrested , to your 70 ORDINANCES .
... from indifference or laziness . And here let me say , my irreligious friend , that you can , if you choose , wrest my words , as the words of better and wiser persons than I have been wrested , to your 70 ORDINANCES .
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Gail Hamilton. wiser persons than I have been wrested , to your own destruction , but I disclaim responsibility for any such consequences . I shall express my views as clearly as I can ; and if lukewarm piety in any of its thousand ...
Gail Hamilton. wiser persons than I have been wrested , to your own destruction , but I disclaim responsibility for any such consequences . I shall express my views as clearly as I can ; and if lukewarm piety in any of its thousand ...
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Página 195 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them. Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; notwithstanding ye give them not those tilings which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Página 379 - If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Página 380 - Take heed to yourselves : if thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him ; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent ; thou shalt forgive him.
Página 403 - Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you ? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy ; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Página 244 - Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up : for God is able to make him stand.
Página 115 - To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Página 237 - The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know ; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord, (save us not this day...
Página 244 - But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Página 405 - THE Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; The God of my rock ; in him will I trust: He is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, My saviour ; thou savest me from violence.