Hilary of PoitiersThe Life and Writings of St. Hilary of PoitiersPsalmsThe piety of the Old Testament Church is reflected with more clearness and variety in the Psalter than in any other book of the Old Testament. Through Baptism God puts his name on us. The worst has been seen, and that too by the holiest of beings, and yet eternal glory is offered to us! Hence Paul Leo the GreatWritings of Leo the GreatSense in Which, and End for which all Things were Delivered to the Incarnate Son. 6. This is the communion with Him, and with Christ, which unquestionably helps the struggling, the penitent, the praying, more than anything else. "(Archbishop Temple. The worst thing that can happen to anyone is for the mercy of God to depart from the person. Thoughtfulness soon degenerates into distrust, and holy anxiety easily rusts into unbelief. We have the help of Almighty God! The former are made and fulfilled by its glorious Originator; the latter are enjoined and obligatory on man. The Lord Stood By Me - Cities Church It is the speech of the soul face to face with God. In my trouble I will call upon the Lord, and complain unto my God; so shall He hear my voice out of His holy temple, and my complaint shall come before Him; it shall enter even into His ears.--Ps. (Isa. This is the communion with Him, and with Christ, which unquestionably helps the struggling, the penitent, the praying, more than anything else. v. 14), the earth was cursed, Hades was opened, Paradise shut, Heaven offended, man, lastly, corrupted and brutalised (cf. The separate, personal thinking of God toward every one of us. Wherefore a few witnesses, which the Lord deigns to suggest to my mind, I proceed to mention, from out the teaching of Christ concerning humility, such as perhaps may be enough for my purpose. "I dwell with him that is of a humble and contrite heart, to revive the heart of the contrite ones."--ISA. G. T. Shedd, D. D.: One of the most remark. He compasseth man's path, and his lying down, and is acquainted with all his ways. David praises God for the truth of his word4. AugustineOf Holy Virginity. Does the Contemplative Life comprise many Acts? A Consolatory Letter to the Parents of Geoffrey. Rom. S. Augustine, Of the City of God, xix. Hence he entreats God to see and disclose it, and then taking his hand to lead him in a way which, unlike the way of the wicked (Psalm 1:6), does not perish, but ends in everlasting life. To Dominicus, Bishop. lvii. He will revive us."--HOS. Now, in this condition of things, God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him might not perish, but have everlasting life. It is common-sense the common-sense of religion. --The Life and Writings of St. Hilary of Poitiers. Then he pauses a moment, as if some doubt or question had entered his mind, and he adds, "Thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever;" and then, with an upward look of intense devotion, addressing his words to the Lord, he prays, "Forsake not the works of thine own hands." We cannot stand forever between two opinions. Differently to be admonished are those that are at variance and those that are at peace. 19 III. able characteristics of a rational being is the power of self-inspection. And this will generally be just when we are tempted to do wrong, or perhaps just when we are actually beginning to do it: some secret sin of which no one knows or dreams perhaps, some self-indulgence, which we dare not deny that God condemns.
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