Loss and Gain: The Story of a ConvertBurns and Oates, 1881 - 432 Seiten |
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Seite 104 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing they are lost, and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve.
Seite 104 - From thee departing they are lost, and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve. But...
Seite 245 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Seite 19 - ... that dusty, weary journey. And why ? because every object which met us was unknown and full of mystery. A tree or two in the distance seemed the beginning of a great wood, or park, stretching endlessly; a hill implied a vale beyond, with that vale's history ; the bye-lanes, with their green hedges, wound on and vanished, yet were not lost to the imagination. Such was our first journey ; but when we had gone it several times, the mind refused to act, the scene ceased to enchant, stern reality...
Seite 10 - The sovereign is still supreme in theory "in all causes and over all persons, ecclesiastical as well as civil...
Seite 332 - O mighty Mother!" he still said, half » unconsciously ; " O mighty Mother ! I come, O mighty Mother ! I come ; but I am far from home. Spare me a little ; I come with what speed I may, but I am slow of foot, and not as others, O mighty Mother...
Seite 353 - There lay old Oxford before him, with its hills as gentle and its meadows as green as ever. At the first view of that beloved place, he stood still with folded arms, unable to proceed. Each college, each church, he counted them by their pinnacles and turrets. The silver Isis, the grey willows, the farstretching plains, the dark groves, the distant range of Shotover, the pleasant village where he had lived with Carlton and Sheffield — wood, water, stone, all so calm, so bright, they might have been...
Seite 385 - Then you mean to say," said Charles, while his heart beat faster, " that such a person is under no duty to wait for clearer light." " He will not have, he cannot expect, clearer light before conversion. Certainty in its highest sense is the reward of those who, by an act of the will, embrace the truth, when nature, like a coward, shrinks. You must make a venture ; faith is a venture before a man is a Catholic ; it is a grace after it. You approach the Church in the way of reason, you live in it in...
Seite 427 - Reding; and as he threw himself on the pavement, in sudden self-abasement and joy, some words of those great Antiphons came into his mouth, from which Willis had formerly quoted: " O Adonai, et Dux domus Israel, qui Moysi in rubo apparuisti; O Emmanuel, Exspectatio Gentium et Salvator earum, veni ad salvandum nos, Domine Deus noster." The function did not last very long after this; Reding, on looking up, found the congregation rapidly diminishing, and the lights in course of extinction. He saw he...