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... religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of a great calamity.—Jeremy Taylor. The lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.— Spurgeon. That which thou dost not understand when ...
... religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of a great calamity.—Jeremy Taylor. The lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.— Spurgeon. That which thou dost not understand when ...
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... religion since my little boy died than in all my life before.—Horace Bushnell. Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.—O. A. Bartol. The hiding ...
... religion since my little boy died than in all my life before.—Horace Bushnell. Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.—O. A. Bartol. The hiding ...
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... religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout man.—A scoffing Raphael, or an irreverent Michael Angelo, is ... religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God by their being a source of ...
... religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout man.—A scoffing Raphael, or an irreverent Michael Angelo, is ... religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God by their being a source of ...
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... Religious asceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake, as supposed, of religion; seen chiefly in the middle ages.—Military asceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake of power; seen ...
... Religious asceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake, as supposed, of religion; seen chiefly in the middle ages.—Military asceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake of power; seen ...
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... religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further.—But when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and ...
... religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further.—But when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and ...
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