Extracts from the religious works of monsr. François Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon, tr. by miss Marshall |
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Σελίδα 20
... passions ; it is only the fear of God , and the divine love of Him , that can enable us to endure our own afflic- tions , or to rise superior to the evils which may be brought on us by others . 4. Nothing can be so good , so tender , so ...
... passions ; it is only the fear of God , and the divine love of Him , that can enable us to endure our own afflic- tions , or to rise superior to the evils which may be brought on us by others . 4. Nothing can be so good , so tender , so ...
Σελίδα 22
... passions which possess us , arise from attachments wrongly placed . God created us to love him and to obey him ; and if we pervert our natural love of vir- tue by our passions , we frustrate the end of our creation . Since , therefore ...
... passions which possess us , arise from attachments wrongly placed . God created us to love him and to obey him ; and if we pervert our natural love of vir- tue by our passions , we frustrate the end of our creation . Since , therefore ...
Σελίδα 23
... passions ; he can , and will reward you , perhaps in this world , but most assuredly in the world to come . 8. How can we reflect for a moment , and be guilty of the dreadful crime of resisting the grace of God in our hearts , and ...
... passions ; he can , and will reward you , perhaps in this world , but most assuredly in the world to come . 8. How can we reflect for a moment , and be guilty of the dreadful crime of resisting the grace of God in our hearts , and ...
Σελίδα 27
... Passion and Cross , he said , that in that very night they would all be ashamed of him , that one of them would betray , and another deny him . St. Peter ( to whom our Lord here alluded ) replied that , “ Though he should die with him ...
... Passion and Cross , he said , that in that very night they would all be ashamed of him , that one of them would betray , and another deny him . St. Peter ( to whom our Lord here alluded ) replied that , “ Though he should die with him ...
Σελίδα 30
... passion , we cannot but be surprised that they should be dis- covered in us by our fellow - creatures : but true humility will make us distrust and think lowly of ourselves : it will also make us turn to God for his grace to conquer our ...
... passion , we cannot but be surprised that they should be dis- covered in us by our fellow - creatures : but true humility will make us distrust and think lowly of ourselves : it will also make us turn to God for his grace to conquer our ...
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Σελίδα 75 - O that men would therefore praise the LORD for His goodness : and declare the wonders that He doeth for the children of men...
Σελίδα 136 - For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time, are not worthy to be compared with the glory, which shall be revealed in us.
Σελίδα 53 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Σελίδα 48 - Consider then seriously with yourself, in all appearance the time of your dissolution draweth near; your sins have laid fast hold upon you; you are soon to be removed from among men by a violent death; and you shall fade away suddenly like the grass, which in the morning is green and groweth up, but in the evening is cut down, dried up, and withered.
Σελίδα 90 - being cast into hell, where the worm dieth not, and where the fire is not quenched.
Σελίδα 16 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Σελίδα 60 - Then it will appear, what was meant by the man that comes without the wedding garment; for that is the day spoken of, Matt. xxii. 13. wherein such an one shall be bound hand and foot, and cast into outer darkness, where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Σελίδα 263 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies : he that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church: for we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.
Σελίδα 110 - Our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us," if we pass through them in submission to the will of God.
Σελίδα 129 - Rome ; and rejoicing that to them it was given, not only to believe in Christ, but also to suffer for his sake. This monument was erected by public subscription in the year of our Lord God 1841.