| Johannes Evangelist Gossner - 1799 - 202 pages
...is righteous in its own esteem. 6. The gospel rejects all pride and haughtiness, and says, ' Unless ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' But to become thus little does not suit the world. 7. The gospel abjures all sinful pleasures. But... | |
| Newmann Hall - 1819 - 242 pages
...could not dread danger and death. But this is not to be had by reasoning. How true that saying is, ' Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven'! But directly we come as children, we obtain everything we need, I never disbelieved, but I did not... | |
| 1858 - 726 pages
...simply on Him as a babe on its mother's knee, and we know an infant can neither think, nor pray ; " Except ye become as LITTLE children ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven." I mentioned an anecdote of my little niece which made him smile, and he seemed to feel the force of... | |
| Edward Berens - 1828 - 194 pages
...holds forth for the imitation of all who would become his disciples : "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven." And if little children were capable of becoming members of Christ's spiritual kingdom — of the kingdom... | |
| English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 pages
...covered my sins ; I am fit for heaven. But this is not to be had by reasoning. How true that saying is, ' Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven ! ' But directly we come as little children, we obtain everything we need." On the 28th, his son-in-law... | |
| James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1839 - 406 pages
...of procedure, they shew that they deviate only to reach more fully and speedily the end proposed. " Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven ;" and except we become as little children, as Reid justly observes, we cannot enter the regions of true philosophy.... | |
| Christopher Newman Hall - 1849 - 232 pages
...could not dread danger and death. But this is not to be had by reasoning. How true that saying is — " Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven ! " But directly we come as children, we obtain everything we need. I never disbelieved — but I did... | |
| Isaac Dowd Williamson - 1850 - 424 pages
...sat it in the midst of his disciples, and said, " Of such is the kingdom of heaven ; " and, again, " Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven." The little child is poor in spirit, and of a teachable disposition. This kingdom of heaven is something... | |
| Newman Hall - 1850 - 234 pages
...could not dread danger and death. But this is not to be had by reasoning. How true that saying is — " Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven ! " But directly we come as children, we obtain everything we need. I never disbelieved — but I did... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 496 pages
...Jesus with their lips, " Doth he not speak parables ? " But it is said, it is revealed to babes, — " Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven." But not babes in all respects — not babes as the representatives of weakness, but babes as the representatives... | |
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