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Page 103 - Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Page 107 - And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them: "Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: for all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
Page 206 - And the scribe said unto Him, Well, Master, Thou hast said the truth: for there is one God ; and there is none other but He : and to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, He said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.
Page 312 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 137 - But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat ; and will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken ; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
Page 151 - So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
Page 189 - What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun ? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth forever...
Page 85 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing] And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. * * * * Fear ye not, therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 127 - No language can express the power and beauty and heroism and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over the wastes of worldly fortune sends the radiance of quenchless fidelity like a star in heaven.
Page 55 - is an entry upon that life " which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath the heart of man conceived " ; it is the bliss of immortality.f Its fundamental idea is " rest " ; rest inhabited by sanctification.