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... soul from every vestige of nar- rowness , raises him above all distinctions of rank and race , and leads him in his supplication to en- girdle the globe with a love and sympathy as broad as God's eternal purpose of grace . The man who ...
... soul from every vestige of nar- rowness , raises him above all distinctions of rank and race , and leads him in his supplication to en- girdle the globe with a love and sympathy as broad as God's eternal purpose of grace . The man who ...
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... soul were kept open toward heaven . Like the diver who goes down to the bottom of the sea , he kept his communication unbroken with the top , and was thereby enabled to live unharmed in the poison- ous air of this lower sphere . His ...
... soul were kept open toward heaven . Like the diver who goes down to the bottom of the sea , he kept his communication unbroken with the top , and was thereby enabled to live unharmed in the poison- ous air of this lower sphere . His ...
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... soul and essence . It was the means by which its lofty aims reached fulfill- ment . As revealing his prevailing habit we read such words as these : " In the morning , a great while be- fore day , he rose up and went out , and departed ...
... soul and essence . It was the means by which its lofty aims reached fulfill- ment . As revealing his prevailing habit we read such words as these : " In the morning , a great while be- fore day , he rose up and went out , and departed ...
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... soul by communion with God is the man who in steadfastness of purpose holds on his way amid all difficulties and discouragements until he has finished the work that the Father has given him to do . CHAPTER III JESUS MET EVERY CRISIS IN ...
... soul by communion with God is the man who in steadfastness of purpose holds on his way amid all difficulties and discouragements until he has finished the work that the Father has given him to do . CHAPTER III JESUS MET EVERY CRISIS IN ...
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... soul because his soul opened to heaven . He felt himself related to the upper sphere . His life was part of the infinite and the eternal . The vision which comes in some measure to every praying soul when the invisible world stands open ...
... soul because his soul opened to heaven . He felt himself related to the upper sphere . His life was part of the infinite and the eternal . The vision which comes in some measure to every praying soul when the invisible world stands open ...
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Page 163 - For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers...
Page 86 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him...
Page 182 - Spirit also helpeth our infirmity : for we know not how to pray as we ought ; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered ; 27 and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Page 74 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 80 - And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not : the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Page 59 - And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Page 236 - And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us. And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.
Page 234 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Page 187 - And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Page 40 - Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared...