Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck

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Longman, 1858 - 548 páginas
 

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Página 232 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Página 368 - The lot is cast into the lap ; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Página 391 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 247 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Página 481 - Ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.
Página 324 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Página 340 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Página 493 - Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. 8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.
Página 312 - And I am conscious of affecting thoughts And dear remembrances, whose presence soothes • Or elevates the mind, intent to weigh The good and evil of our mortal state. To these emotions, whencesoe'er they come, Whether from breath of outward circumstance, Or from the Soul, — an impulse to herself, — I would give utterance in numerous verse.
Página 120 - Was wanting yet the pure delight of love By sound diffused, or by the breathing air, Or by the silent looks of happy things, Or flowing from the universal face Of earth and sky. But he had felt the power Of Nature, and already was prepared, By his intense conceptions, to receive Deeply the lesson deep of love which he, Whom. Nature, by whatever means, has taught To feel intensely, cannot but receive.

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