 | George Mogridge - 1831 - 102 pàgines
...for 'that slender supply. She was satisfied ; and never was I convinced of the truth of the texts, " Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith." " Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." Rebecca Roberts... | |
 | 1831 - 412 pàgines
...may endure are painful, but he is taking nothing from them that could be of real service to them. " Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and trouble therewith." Real religion, wheresoever it exists, elevates the favoured recipient of it into a dignity of feeling,... | |
 | 1833 - 930 pàgines
...charity, ' Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox, and hatred therewith ! — Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith !"* "Supposing then, that the incomes of the parochial clergy are thus to be adjusted, the tithes from... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pàgines
...which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. THE more any person enjoys of Christ, the more ardent will be his desires after... | |
 | 1832 - 508 pàgines
...his life for us, that many waters could not quench his love, neither could the floods drown it, that if a man would give all the substance of his house for this love, it would utterly be contemned? What think you of Christ's promises? that they are exceeding... | |
 | 1831 - 500 pàgines
...Christian affection is a sacred flame " which many waters cannot quench, neither can the floods drown : and if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. — Every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of... | |
 | John Kershaw Craig - 1833 - 232 pàgines
...coming of our Lord. But if a man would desire to have it, hear what the wisest of men has said of it; " If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." Hear what he says of its strong and ardent exercise ; " The coals thereof are... | |
 | Johannes Herr - 1834 - 410 pàgines
...which hath a most violent flame : many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it : if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. Solomon's Song 8. 25. Hearken, therefore, O daughter, and consider, and incline... | |
 | 1834 - 444 pàgines
...who would not exclaim with the wise king of old, in comparing these two pictures of humble life, " Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith V AD ON PRAYER. Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ prayed constantly, and has left tit His holy... | |
 | 1834 - 428 pàgines
...suitable return can be made for love but love, at least not without it. As love cannot be purchased, for " if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned," Cant. viii. 7. ; so if a man would give all the world for a requital of love,... | |
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. 
