The Three Paths, Or, Truth, Vanity, and ProfessionFrancis & John Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard, and Waterloo Place, 1852 - 262 pages |
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The Three Paths; Or, Truth, Vanity and Profession Caroline Dorothea Anderson (hon ) No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 106 - And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
Page 260 - He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother, is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Page 175 - The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God.
Page 143 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own : but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 170 - MY SON, IF THOU COME TO SERVE THE LORD, PREPARE THY SOUL for temptation. Set thy heart aright, and constantly endure, and make not haste in time of trouble.
Page 267 - Those persons who creep into the hearts of most people, who are chosen as the companions of their softer hours, and their reliefs from care and anxiety, are never persons of shining qualities nor strong virtues. It is rather the soft green of the soul on which we rest our eyes, that are fatigued with beholding more glaring objects.
Page 275 - LA vie humaine est semblable à un chemin dont l'issue est un précipice affreux : on nous en avertit dès le premier pas, mais la loi est prononcée, il faut avancer toujours. Je voudrais retourner sur mes pas :
Page 271 - For at the first she will walk with him by crooked ways, and bring fear and dread upon him, and torment him with her discipline, until she may trust his soul, and try him by her laws. Then will she return the straight way unto him, and comfort him, and shew him her secrets. But if he go wrong, she will forsake him, and give him over to his own ruin.
Page 275 - Un poids invincible , une force invincible nous entraîne ; il faut sans cesse avancer vers le précipice. Mille traverses, mille peines nous fatiguent et nous inquiètent dans la route ; encore si je pouvais éviter ce précipice affreux. Non , non, il faut marcher, il faut courir, telle est la rapidité des années. On se console pourtant, parce que de temps en temps on rencontre des objets qui nous divertissent, des eaux courantes, des fleurs qui passent. On voudrait arrêter ; marche, marche.
Page 276 - Déjà tout commence à s'effacer ; les jardins moins fleuris, les fleurs moins brillantes, leurs couleurs moins vives, les prairies moins riantes, les eaux moins claires, tout se ternit, tout s'efface : l'ombre de la mort se présente ; on commence à sentir l'approche du gouffre fatal.