 | George Eliot - 1908 - 344 pages
...knew whether he was alive or dead. CHAPTER XXII IT was probably a hard saying to the Pharisees, that " there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance." And certain ingenious philosophers of our own day must surely take offence... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe - Family & Relationships - 2002 - 442 pages
...happy temperaments have escaped the dangers of life that God and good angels most anxiously watch. "For there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine that went not astray." The hardest work of all is to restore a guilty, selfish, hardened spirit to... | |
 | Nicholas Amhurst - Education - 2004 - 516 pages
...upon the purity of those fountains, may rejoice and be glad in it.* We are assur'd in scripture, that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance? If the same rule is to be observed upon earth, how great and extraordinary should the national joy... | |
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there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. 
