The Outlook Beautiful

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Little, Brown,, 1905 - 180 sider

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Side 42 - I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword ; and I, even I only, am left ; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Side 42 - But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life ; for I am not better than my fathers.
Side 32 - The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined ; more strict than any of which we have experience. It is for aid and comfort through all the relations and passages of life and death. It is fit for serene days, and graceful gifts, and country rambles, but also for rough roads and hard fare, shipwreck, poverty, and persecution.
Side 119 - Let us, then, labor for an inward stillness, — An inward stillness and an inward healing; That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks in us, and we wait In singleness of heart, that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will, and do that only!
Side 41 - And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.
Side 83 - Whoso has felt the Spirit of the Highest Cannot confound nor doubt Him nor deny: Yea, with one voice, O, world, though thou deniest, Stand thou on that side, for on this am I.
Side 98 - It is the highest power of divine moments that they abolish our contritions also. I accuse myself of sloth and unprofitableness day by day; but when these waves of God flow into me I no longer reckon lost time.
Side 108 - A man's genius, the quality that differences him from every other, the susceptibility to one class of influences, the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for him the character of the universe.
Side 40 - Said the prophets of old, referring to scenes like these : " 0 that thou wouldst rend the heavens, that thou wouldst come down, that the mountains might. flow down at thy presence...
Side 40 - O REST in the Lord, wait patiently for him, and he shall give thee thy heart's desire.

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