Selections from the World's Devotional Classics, Volume 3Robert Scott, George William Gilmore Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1916 - Devotional literature |
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according altogether baptism beholding blessed Trinity bliss blood body Catherine of Sienna cause charity cometh consubstantial contemplation created things creatures dear children death deed delight desire devil divine grace divine love doth endless endless love enter eternal faith Father gifts glory God's goodnes hath heart heaven Hence highest Holy Church Holy Ghost Holy Spirit humility inner intellect Jesus Christ John Tauler JULIANA OF NORWICH light live longeth Lord maketh manner marvellous meaning meekness Meister Eckhart mind nature naught neighbor ness never numbers outward pain Paul peace perfect pray reason receive saith salvation senses shewed sheweth sight similitude sins Song of Songs sorrow soul spiritual suffer supremely sweet THOMAS AQUINAS thou art thou shalt thyself tion told thee true truly truth understanding unity verily vertue virtue vocal prayer whereby Wherefore whole wisdom words worketh worship wrath
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Page 105 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth ; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 109 - Be sober and watch : because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about, seeking whom he may devour : whom resist ye, strong in faith ; knowing that the same affliction befals your brethren who are in the world.
Page 74 - Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.
Page 189 - And I saw no difference between God and our substance but as it were all God. And yet my understanding took that our substance is in God, that is to say that God is God, and our substance is a creature in God.
Page 72 - We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren.
Page 124 - For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge, and in all judgment...
Page 85 - Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
Page 84 - For every high priest taken from among men, is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins...
Page 79 - For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
Page 5 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.