A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy LifeJ.M. Dent & Company, 1906 - 355 páginas |
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... envy , and ambition , which religion opposes , is doing more to make himself happy , even in this life , than he that is contriving means to indulge them . For these passions are the causes of all the disquiets and vexations of human ...
... envy , and ambition , which religion opposes , is doing more to make himself happy , even in this life , than he that is contriving means to indulge them . For these passions are the causes of all the disquiets and vexations of human ...
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... envy , and covetousness , as from thoughts of murder ; that , in this freedom from worldly passions , he had a soul full of Divine love , wishing and praying that all men may have what they want of worldly things , and be partakers of ...
... envy , and covetousness , as from thoughts of murder ; that , in this freedom from worldly passions , he had a soul full of Divine love , wishing and praying that all men may have what they want of worldly things , and be partakers of ...
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... proper to satisfy them . Envy and ambition have also their endless wants , which disquiet the souls of men , and by their contradictory motions , render them as foolishly miserable , as those that want to fly and creep 118 A Serious Call ...
... proper to satisfy them . Envy and ambition have also their endless wants , which disquiet the souls of men , and by their contradictory motions , render them as foolishly miserable , as those that want to fly and creep 118 A Serious Call ...
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... place , in a poor pursuit of we know not what , are the wants which neither God , nor nature , nor reason , hath subjected us to , but are solely infused into us by pride , envy , ambition , A Devout and Holy Life 121.
... place , in a poor pursuit of we know not what , are the wants which neither God , nor nature , nor reason , hath subjected us to , but are solely infused into us by pride , envy , ambition , A Devout and Holy Life 121.
Página 122
... envy , but unhappy to be kept from other degrees of envy . That it is happy to be delivered from a boundless ambition , but unhappy to be without a more moderate ambition . It supposes , also , that the happiness of life consists in a ...
... envy , but unhappy to be kept from other degrees of envy . That it is happy to be delivered from a boundless ambition , but unhappy to be without a more moderate ambition . It supposes , also , that the happiness of life consists in a ...
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