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afterwards behold beloved Bible biographer Bishop of Utrecht blessed Blessed Virgin Mary Brethren Brotherhood Brothers of Common called Canons Regular Cele choir Christ Christian Church clerics counsel death delight desire Deventer devout died diligently Diocese of Utrecht disciples discourse Divine earnest election endeavour eternal evil faithful Father Florentius fervour frequently Gerard Gerard Groote give glory God's godly grace hand hast hath heart heaven Holy Scriptures honour House humble humility Imitatione Christi instructions Jesus John Kempen labour lived Lord Lubert manner matter mind monastery Mount St Agnes obedience peace persons piety pious poor Pope Boniface IX praise prayer preaching priest Prior received Rector religion religious sacred saints Saviour says seems sick soul speak spiritual Sub-prior sweet thee things Thomas à Kempis thou art thyself tion town unto Utrecht virtue whilst Windesheim words worldly writings Zutphen Zwolle
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Page 171 - But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page 23 - It was written down by a hand that waited for the heart's. prompting ; it is the chronicle of a solitary hidden anguish, struggle, trust, and triumph, not written on velvet cushions to teach endurance to those who are treading with bleeding feet on the stones. And so it remains to all time a lasting record of human needs and human consolations ; the voice of a brother who, ages ago, felt, and suffered, and renounced, in the cloister...
Page 280 - O that men would therefore praise the LORD for His goodness : and declare the wonders that He doeth for the children of men...
Page 311 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 205 - So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
Page 280 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 283 - The voice at midnight came; He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Page 22 - A strange thrill of awe passed through Maggie while she read, as if she had been wakened in the night by a strain of solemn music, telling of beings whose souls had been astir while hers was in stupor.
Page 22 - ... quiet, had made. . at certain passages strong pen-and-ink marks, long since browned by time. Maggie turned from leaf to leaf, and read where the quiet hand pointed.
Page 27 - They that turn many to righteousness, shall shine as the stars for ever and ever.