| John Langhorne - 1815 - 304 páginas
...and our desires be complied with, so far as they are consistent with our owii happiness. Our Father, who is in heaven, is ever more ready to hear than...pray, and is wont to give more than we can either desire or deserve. Is it not then our greatest happiness that we have so beneficent a Parent, in whose... | |
| William BISHOP (Rector of Ufton Nervet.) - 1825 - 364 páginas
...shall we not then so order our thoughts, so govern our lives, by the aid of the Holy Spirit, who is more ready to hear than we to pray, and is wont to give more than we ask for and deserve ; shall we not so act as to be found watching, that we may not be taken unawares,... | |
| 1840 - 538 páginas
...desire to believe, hope, and serve God, nothing could hinder them from so doing, because " God is always more ready to hear, than we to pray, and is wont to give more than either we desire or deserve ;" consequently did these carnal professors, in truth desire the favour... | |
| William Dealtry - 1827 - 700 páginas
...It is the character of that gracious Being to whom our supplications are to be addressed, that He is more ready to hear than we to pray, and is wont to give more than we either desire or deserve. What did this poor sufferer ask ? That he might be remembered by Christ when... | |
| John Stedman - 1830 - 364 páginas
...careth for you. Roll it over upon Him in faith and prayer, and be assured that " He, who is always more ready to hear than we to pray, and is wont to give more than either we desire or deserve, will put his shoulder to the burthen, and will finally, for the merits... | |
| John Hobart Caunter - 1842 - 412 páginas
...always more ready to comfort the righteous than to depress the wicked; as he is now, in heaven, far " more ready to hear than we to pray, and is wont to give more than either we desire or deserve." We discover the strong features of his unstinted and unmeasured mercy... | |
| 1845 - 88 páginas
...the same shall be saved." Matt. xxiv. 13. And be assured God will listen to you, " for he is always more ready to hear, than we to pray, and is wont to give more than either we desire or deserve." 13 PART THE SECOND. CHAP. III. The Creed. The second thing promised by... | |
| Edward William Shalders - 1858 - 82 páginas
...as in everything else, practice is necessary to success. Let such join in supplicating Him " who is more ready to hear than we to pray, and is wont to give us more than either we desire or deserve," " that by his holy inspiration, they may think those things... | |
| Alexander Penrose Forbes - 1860 - 282 páginas
...direct assertion, and in implied significance, this blessed truth is ever inculcated on us, that GOD is " ever more ready to hear than we to pray, and is wont to give more than either we desire or deserve." With this in our minds, let us see how the prophet king expresses himself.... | |
| Richard Whately - 1860 - 212 páginas
...sufficient earnestness praying and striving for their eternal happiness; beseeching Him who is ' always more ready to hear than we to pray, and is wont ' to give more than either we desire or deserve, to pour down upon us the abundance of his mercy ; forgiving us those things... | |
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