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... doubts . No voice is heard . It is a still and dark domain , that of death . Is the soul to think , to feel , to joy , to suffer , to hope , to aspire no more ? Is all to return to dust ? Will the uplifted arm of God crush the spiritual ...
... doubts . No voice is heard . It is a still and dark domain , that of death . Is the soul to think , to feel , to joy , to suffer , to hope , to aspire no more ? Is all to return to dust ? Will the uplifted arm of God crush the spiritual ...
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... Doubt , if not hope , has possibly taken the place of absolute despair . Let us suppose the light thus attained by a few to be general or universal ; that through philosophy , or tradition , or innate teachings , the mystery were quite ...
... Doubt , if not hope , has possibly taken the place of absolute despair . Let us suppose the light thus attained by a few to be general or universal ; that through philosophy , or tradition , or innate teachings , the mystery were quite ...
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... doubt vanishes away , and all contradictions find reconciliation . We have here the true theory of the world under God's ad- ministration the basis of a system in which every intelli- gible fact , every dark event , the entire chaos of ...
... doubt vanishes away , and all contradictions find reconciliation . We have here the true theory of the world under God's ad- ministration the basis of a system in which every intelli- gible fact , every dark event , the entire chaos of ...
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... doubts will vanish in the clear light of such a demonstration . No heart can withstand the affecting vision . The sinner ... doubt , a troubled heart , " an unbelieving fear . None but a stupid , hardened sinner can endure the sight un ...
... doubts will vanish in the clear light of such a demonstration . No heart can withstand the affecting vision . The sinner ... doubt , a troubled heart , " an unbelieving fear . None but a stupid , hardened sinner can endure the sight un ...
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... doubt whether we are the friends or the enemies of God . The soul can not , must not rest in suspense . The heart is troubled - tortured by suspense . Nice deductions , con- clusions arrived at by ingenious concatenated trains of argu ...
... doubt whether we are the friends or the enemies of God . The soul can not , must not rest in suspense . The heart is troubled - tortured by suspense . Nice deductions , con- clusions arrived at by ingenious concatenated trains of argu ...
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Page 20 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 342 - And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it, or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 368 - I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly and from house to house, testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 30 - And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Page 307 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me not in ; naked and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 227 - Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you : for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.
Page 174 - And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Page 212 - Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world...
Page 211 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 31 - His second duty is to watch ; ' for he knoweth not the day nor the hour when the Son of man cometh.