Thomas À Kempis and the Brothers of Common LifeK. Paul Trench, 1885 - 392 من الصفحات |
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afterwards behold beloved biographer Bishop of Utrecht blessed Blessed Virgin Mary Brethren Brotherhood Brothers of Common called Canons Regular Cele choir Christ Christian Church clerics counsel death delight desire Deventer devout died diligently Diocese of Utrecht disciples discourse Divine earnest election endeavour eternal faithful Father Florentius fervour frequently Gerard Gerard Groote give glory God's godly grace hand hath heart heaven holy honour House humble humility Imitatione Christi instructions Jesus John Kempen labour lived Lord Lubert manner matter mind monastery Mount St Agnes obedience peace persons piety pious poor Pope Boniface IX praise prayer preaching present priest Prior received Rector religion religious sacred saints Saviour says Scriptures seems servant sick soul speak spiritual Sub-prior sweet thee things Thomas à Kempis thou art thyself tion town unto Utrecht virtue whilst Windesheim words worldly writings Zutphen Zwolle
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الصفحة 173 - But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
الصفحة 294 - O that men would therefore praise the LORD for His goodness : and declare the wonders that He doeth for the children of men...
الصفحة 325 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
الصفحة 209 - So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
الصفحة 294 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
الصفحة 297 - The voice at midnight came; He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
الصفحة 25 - I suppose that is the reason why the small old-fashioned book, for which you need only pay sixpence at a book-stall, works miracles to this day, turning bitter waters into sweetness : while expensive sermons and treatises, newly issued, leave all things as they were before.
الصفحة 24 - A strange thrill of awe passed through Maggie while she read, as if she had been wakened in the night by a strain of solemn music, telling of beings whose souls had been astir while hers was in stupor.
الصفحة 24 - ... quiet, had made. . at certain passages strong pen-and-ink marks, long since browned by time. Maggie turned from leaf to leaf, and read where the quiet hand pointed.
الصفحة 29 - They that turn many to righteousness, shall shine as the stars for ever and ever.