The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume 10James Duffy, 1866 - Fathers of the church |
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Page 194 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Page 58 - ... covered his feet, and with two they flew. And they cried one to another, and said : Holy, Holy, Holy, the Lord God of Hosts, all the earth is full of his glory.
Page 349 - Scarce has she learn't to lisp the name Of martyr; yet she thinks it shame Life should so long play with that breath Which spent can buy so brave a death.
Page 60 - But one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and stretching forth myself to those that are before, I press towards the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 349 - Live, Jesus, live, and let it be My life to die for love of Thee.
Page 400 - ... us what we are to believe, and what we are to do, that through his redemption we may escape eternal torments and attain to everlasting life.
Page 60 - Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect : but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Page 413 - ... and when I expressed my surprise, he said that it was very easy if one once had acquired the habit. One of his companions has assured me that he has gone sometimes eight days without food. . . . His poverty was extreme; and his mortification, even in his youth, was such that he told me he had passed three years in a house of his order without knowing any of the monks otherwise than by the sound of their voice, for he never raised his eyes, and only found his way about by following the others....
Page 349 - By all the heav'ns thou hast in him, Fair sister of the seraphim! By all of him we have in thee, Leave nothing of myself in me: Let me so read thy life that I Unto all life of mine may die.
Page 35 - The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear Him : and shall deliver them.