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... thoughts and such faith make his work a prayer and an offering of praise . On the other hand , it must be equally true ... thought , - " Go to now , this prayer hath been heard with God ; that know I surely and of a truth . " That is the ...
... thoughts and such faith make his work a prayer and an offering of praise . On the other hand , it must be equally true ... thought , - " Go to now , this prayer hath been heard with God ; that know I surely and of a truth . " That is the ...
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... thoughts should yield to his Divine will , and you should obey him cheerfully , and have no doubt that such thoughts , as disobedient to the will of God , are , of a certainty , shot and thrust with force into your heart by the Devil ...
... thoughts should yield to his Divine will , and you should obey him cheerfully , and have no doubt that such thoughts , as disobedient to the will of God , are , of a certainty , shot and thrust with force into your heart by the Devil ...
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... thoughts free to plague you at their leisure , you will soon be lost . But the best of all advice is , not to fight ... thought . It shall do no harm , if he should be made angry on account thereof . Pretend as if you were sorry for it ...
... thoughts free to plague you at their leisure , you will soon be lost . But the best of all advice is , not to fight ... thought . It shall do no harm , if he should be made angry on account thereof . Pretend as if you were sorry for it ...
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... thoughts should yield to his Divine will , and you should obey him cheerfully , and have no doubt that such thoughts , as disobedient to the will of God , are , of a certainty , shot and thrust with force into your heart by the Devil ...
... thoughts should yield to his Divine will , and you should obey him cheerfully , and have no doubt that such thoughts , as disobedient to the will of God , are , of a certainty , shot and thrust with force into your heart by the Devil ...
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... thought for his neighbour even in those things which are secure , and suffereth us to regard neither honour nor dishonour , so diligently doth it consider a neigh- bour's danger and mishap . Wherefore , since I know that thy Holiness ...
... thought for his neighbour even in those things which are secure , and suffereth us to regard neither honour nor dishonour , so diligently doth it consider a neigh- bour's danger and mishap . Wherefore , since I know that thy Holiness ...
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according animal appear beautiful become called character child Christ countenance creatures cried dear angels death Devil divine earth envious eternal evil eyes father feeling German give God the Father Goethe GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING grace hand Hans Luther happy hath heart heaven Holy Holy Spirit honour human idea imagination Jupiter kind King kingdom of heaven Königsberg Laocoon laws learned light living look Lord Lucidor matter means ment mind moral MOSES MENDELSSOHN mother naive Narciss nature ness never noble object once ourselves Paradise passion peace perfect philosophy physiognomy pleasure poet prayer prince pure racter reason religion seemed sentiments soon Sophocles soul speak spirit stand stept sublime suffer Theag thee things thou art thought tion true truth ture understanding virtue whole Wilhelm wise wish Wittenberg word younker youth
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Page 93 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe...
Page 86 - And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
Page xxx - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.
Page 86 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever.
Page 239 - The delineation of this character on his course of life through joys and sorrows, the ever-increasing interest of the story, by the combination of the entirely natural...
Page xxviii - And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Page 228 - Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not.
Page xxxi - If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul.
Page 267 - Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible to rule external circumstances, and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. Life lies before us, as a huge quarry lies before the architect ; he deserves not the name of architect, except when out of this fortuitous mass he can combine, with the greatest economy, and fitness, and durability, some form, the pattern of which originated in his spirit. All things without us, nay, I may add, all things on us, are mere elements; but deep...
Page 278 - ... of its own accord. One thing there is, however, which no child brings into the world with him ; and yet it is on this one thing that all depends for making man in every point a man. * It' you can discover it yourself, speak it out.