The World's Congress of ReligionsArena publishing Company, 1893 - 428 pages |
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Page 73 - Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, "because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Page 14 - For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 122 - I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Page 159 - The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come, but -woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
Page 377 - And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead : Whose kingdom shall have no end.
Page 90 - Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the Vine ; you the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same beareth much fruit : for without Me you can do nothing.
Page 130 - And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord ; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord : for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Page 89 - The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
Page 353 - The foxes had holes, and the birds of the air had nests ; but the Son of man had not where to lay his head : Luke ix.
Page 416 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a