 | Henry Ainsworth - 1843 - 760 pages
...mouth of God, who teacheth man's hand to war, Pg. cxliv. 1, who hath willed us, ' If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, be at peace with all men,' Rom. xii. 18. In special it was commanded, ' Thou shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother,'... | |
 | Charles Roger - Bible - 1847 - 342 pages
...10 Let their eyes be darkened so as not to see ; and do thou bend their back always. CHAP. XII. 1 8 As much as lieth in you, be at peace with all men. 1 9 Beloved, avenge not yourselves, but give way to the anger of another, for it is written : Vengeance... | |
 | Robert Ainslie - 1869 - 492 pages
...17Reconipenfe to no one evil for evil. Provide things honourable in the sight of all men. 18If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, be at peace with all men. 19Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but give place to anger : for it is written, Punishment is... | |
 | Bible - 1888 - 250 pages
...there, " In the sight of God," is added in some manuscripts to the text here. — If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, be at peace with all men. Not merely live peaceably. To be at peace signifies the disposition of the mind. The qualifications... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1890 - 376 pages
...himself trampled under foot by the young, the eager, the voracious. ' Vae victis, vae deUlibus ! ' yells the crowd, which in its turn is storming the...' Father, forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them who trespass against us.' Prepare thyaelf as though the coming Easter were thy last, for thy days... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1891 - 378 pages
...... A miserable night enough. Awakened three or four times by my bronchitis. Sadness—restlessness. One of these winter nights, possibly, suffocation...' Father, forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them who trespass against us.' Prepare thyself as though the coming Easter were thy last, for thy days... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1893 - 378 pages
...velvet. My enchantment beguiled me out both before and after dinner. The impression is that of a /He, and the subdued tints are, or seem to be, a mere coquetry...bed of death the soul should have no eyes but for eteraal things. All the littlenesses of life disappear. The fight is over. There should be nothing... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Swiss literature (French) - 1893 - 852 pages
...enough to express its frailty ; the soap-bubble is the best poetical translation of all this iltesory magnificence, this fugitive apparition of the tiny...' Father, forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them who trespass against us.' Prepare thyself as though the coming Easter were thy last, for thy days... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - French essays - 1896 - 426 pages
...wipe out all personal grievances and bitternesses; forgive all, judge no one; in enmity and Hlwill, see only misunderstanding. ' As much as lieth in you,...bed of death the soul should have no eyes but for eternil things. All the littlenesses of lite disappear. The fight is over. There should be nothing... | |
 | David James Burrell - Apologetics - 1894 - 318 pages
...vindictive ; resort not to the Lex Talionis ; anticipate not the functions of the magistrates ; but, as much as lieth in you, be at peace with all men. Our Lord Jesus interpreted his command of turning the other cheek when he was undergoing a preliminary... | |
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A mere nothing separates me from idiocy, from madness, -from death. The slightest breach is enough to endanger all this frail, ingenious edifice, which calls itself my being and my life. Not even the dragonfly symbol is enough to express its frailty ;... 
