Thoughts on Religion & Other Subjects [with Pious Reflections for Every Day in the Month & Prayers by Fénelon.].1846 - 283 pages |
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... receiving benefit from their prescriptions , who had not skill enough to understand your disease ? Your chief infirmities are pride , which alienates you from God , and concupiscence , which fastens you down to earth ; and their ...
... receiving benefit from their prescriptions , who had not skill enough to understand your disease ? Your chief infirmities are pride , which alienates you from God , and concupiscence , which fastens you down to earth ; and their ...
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... receiving and for- feiting grace , as a fence against the double danger to which he is always exposed , of despair and of pride . The philosophers never furnished men with senti- ments agreeable to these two estates . They either in ...
... receiving and for- feiting grace , as a fence against the double danger to which he is always exposed , of despair and of pride . The philosophers never furnished men with senti- ments agreeable to these two estates . They either in ...
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... , the most ancient stories now on record . I discover a great and numerous race , who worship one God , and are governed by a law which they affirm themselves to have received from his hand . The sum of what THOUGHTS ON RELIGION . 39.
... , the most ancient stories now on record . I discover a great and numerous race , who worship one God , and are governed by a law which they affirm themselves to have received from his hand . The sum of what THOUGHTS ON RELIGION . 39.
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Blaise Pascal. have received from his hand . The sum of what they maintain is this : that they are the only persons whom God has honoured with the communication of his mys- teries ; that all other men , having corrupted themselves , and ...
Blaise Pascal. have received from his hand . The sum of what they maintain is this : that they are the only persons whom God has honoured with the communication of his mys- teries ; that all other men , having corrupted themselves , and ...
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... received him not as the Messias . After his death , the apostles were sent to in- struct men , that all these things happened in figure , that the kingdom of God was in the spirit , not in the flesh ; that their enemies were not ...
... received him not as the Messias . After his death , the apostles were sent to in- struct men , that all these things happened in figure , that the kingdom of God was in the spirit , not in the flesh ; that their enemies were not ...
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