There is something in the very act of prayer that for a time stills the violence of passion and elevates and purifies the affections. When affliction presses hard, and the weakness of human nature looks around in vain for support, how natural is the impulse... The Favourite of Nature: A Tale ... - الصفحة 116بواسطة Mary Ann Kelty - 1822عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Selection - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 190
...beneath the intensity of her trial, that you must look to receive the divine gift — the crown of duty. There is something in the very act of prayer, that,...throws us on our knees before Him who has laid his chasAt one time, capable of the greatest elevation of sentiment, at another, unequal to combat with... | |
| 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...from making a wise man a Christian, that they only raise a statue. -.Archbishop Bancroft. PRAYER — There is something in the very act of prayer that for a time strikes the violence of passion, and elevates and purifies the affections. When affliction- presses... | |
| 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...from making a wise man a Christian, that they only raise a statue — Archbishop Bancroft. PRAYER. — There is something in the very act of prayer that for a time strikes the violence of passion, and elevates and purifies the affections. When affliction presses... | |
| Robert Sears - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...qualified to say much himself, he can propose questions to those who are able to answer them. PRAYER. — There is something in the very act of prayer, that...round, in vain, for support, how natural is the impulse which throws us on our knees before Him who has laid his chastenings upon us ! and how secure, how... | |
| David King (publisher) - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...the midst, and upon Immanuel's shoulders does the entire government rest THE EFJFICAC? or PRAYER.— There is something in the very act of prayer that...presses hard, and the weakness of human nature looks around in vain for support, how natural is the impulse that throws us on our knees before Him who has... | |
| 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...the courts of the New Jerusalem, the celestial city, for ever and ever. SSS THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER. THERE is something in the very act of prayer that...presses hard, and the weakness of human nature looks around in vain for support, how natural is the impulse that throws us on our knees before Him who has... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...Dosion , ix. 482 ; R. Beddome, ii. 15. «. 12. Dr. II. Smith, 72. Ь R. Cecil, М.A. с Roberts. " There is something in the very act of prayer that...presses hard, and the weakness of human nature looks around in vain for support, how natural is the impulse that throws us on our linees before Him who... | |
| Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 702
...supply : The good, unasked, in mercy grant, The ill, though asked, deny. There is something in every act of prayer that for a time stills the violence...passion, and elevates and purifies the affections. — JEREMY TAYLOR. When Christ went up into a mountain apart to pray, He dismissed the multitude, to... | |
| Peter Hampson Ditchfield - 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 100
...troubled, when with us is Prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee ! Archbishop Trench. There is something in the very act of prayer that...presses hard, and the weakness of human nature looks around in vain for support, how natural is the impulse that throws us on our knees before Him Who has... | |
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