The Meditations of St. Augustine, His Treatise of the Love of God, Soliloquies, and Manual: With Select Contemplations from St. Anselm and St. BernardJ. Nunn, 1818 - 419 pages |
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... feeling of my brethren's afflictions ; and apply myself cheerfully to rectify their mistakes , to relieve their ... feels itself sinking under the weight of this melancholy reflection , the publicans , and harlots , and sinners , ( Mat ...
... feeling of my brethren's afflictions ; and apply myself cheerfully to rectify their mistakes , to relieve their ... feels itself sinking under the weight of this melancholy reflection , the publicans , and harlots , and sinners , ( Mat ...
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... feel a check from within ; my conscience stings , and my heart misgives me ; love bids me hope , but sense of sin bids me fear ; and dread of thy displeasure damps that zeal with which my heart approaches thee : when I reflect on my own ...
... feel a check from within ; my conscience stings , and my heart misgives me ; love bids me hope , but sense of sin bids me fear ; and dread of thy displeasure damps that zeal with which my heart approaches thee : when I reflect on my own ...
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... feel the smart of it ! How low , O Son of God , did thy humility stoop ! How fervent was thy love ! How bound- less thy compassion ! For I have done wickedly , and thou art called to account for it : I armed an angry justice ST ...
... feel the smart of it ! How low , O Son of God , did thy humility stoop ! How fervent was thy love ! How bound- less thy compassion ! For I have done wickedly , and thou art called to account for it : I armed an angry justice ST ...
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... feel no satisfaction in any joys without thee ; nor any reluctancy in the greatest sufferings for thee . Let the mention of thy name , be always a refreshment , and the remembrance of thy good- ness an inexhaustible spring of comfort to ...
... feel no satisfaction in any joys without thee ; nor any reluctancy in the greatest sufferings for thee . Let the mention of thy name , be always a refreshment , and the remembrance of thy good- ness an inexhaustible spring of comfort to ...
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... feel the slug- glish mass warmed and put into motion ; we rise and mount upwards in heart and mind ; we sing songs of degrees , and , inflamed with thy Divine fire , burn with holy zeal and soar aloft success- fully . But whither is it ...
... feel the slug- glish mass warmed and put into motion ; we rise and mount upwards in heart and mind ; we sing songs of degrees , and , inflamed with thy Divine fire , burn with holy zeal and soar aloft success- fully . But whither is it ...
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Page 60 - O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, In the secret places of the stairs, Let me see thy countenance, Let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, And thy countenance is comely.
Page 107 - I love God," and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.
Page 321 - And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
Page 40 - BUT chiefly are we bound to praise thee for the glorious Resurrection of thy Son Jesus Christ our "Lord : for he is the very Paschal Lamb, which was offered for us, and hath taken away the sin of the world ; who by his death hath destroyed death, and by his rising to life again hath restored to us everlasting life.
Page 190 - Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
Page 64 - Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense; and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice.
Page 42 - Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name : that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth ; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father'
Page 42 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Page 61 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 320 - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews ! And they spit upon him, and took the reed and smote him on the head.