Look Up; Or, Girls and Flowers. [With Illustrations.]

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Religious Tract Society, 1848 - 179 ページ
 

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43 ページ - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
177 ページ - God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine and toil, And yet have had no flowers.
50 ページ - While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
174 ページ - Verily, I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter therein.
138 ページ - Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
140 ページ - WE do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy...
177 ページ - To make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant rain, The nightly dews might fall, And the herb that keepeth life in man Might yet have drunk them all.
58 ページ - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth : for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
131 ページ - It is beautiful," exclaims a Swedish author, " to believe ourselves loved, especially by those whom we love and value." Yes, it is beautiful, certainly ; but woe to us if we neglect the responsibility attached to it. When God permits us to win the regard of others, he places in our hands a sweet and powerful influence, which we should be very carefUl to use in his service and for his glory. Human affection, sanctified by the divine blessing, may be made the instrument of much good ; wanting that...
154 ページ - Jesus and the desire to do something for Him who has done so much for us, the feeling will find some way of expression.

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