item: #1 of 18 id: 10630 author: Havergal, Frances Ridley title: Coming to the King date: None words: 1772 flesch: 87 summary: Behold Thee in Thy beauty, behold Thee face to face, Behold Thee in Thy glory and reap Thy smile of grace And be with Thee for ever, and never grieve Thee more! [Illustration] Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before Thee and that hear Thy wisdom 1 Kings X 8 Coming to the King By Frances Ridley Havergal Coming to the King. keywords: blessed; christ; eyes; glory; god; grace; happy; havergal; illustration; joy; king; light; love; peace; rest; saviour; shadow; thee; thine; thou; wisdom cache: 10630.txt plain text: 10630.txt item: #2 of 18 id: 10866 author: Emmerich, Anna Katharina title: The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ date: None words: 125336 flesch: 65 summary: It is true that I never did see either Jesus or his disciples offer any sacrifice in the Temple, excepting the Paschal lamb; but Joseph and Anna used frequently during their lifetime to offer sacrifice for the Child Jesus. The angels wavered between joy and grief; they desired ardently to fall prostrate before the throne of God, and to obtain permission to assist Jesus; but at the same time they were filled with astonishment, and could only adore that miracle of Divine justice and mercy which had existed in Heaven for all eternity, and was now about to be accomplished; for the angels believe, like us, in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, who began on this night to suffer under Pontius Pilate, and the next day was to be crucified; to die, and be buried; descend into hell, rise again on the third day, ascent into Heaven, be seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, and from thence come to judge the living and the dead; they likewise believe in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. keywords: abenadar; able; account; accusations; adam; adorable; agony; alarmed; altar; angels; anger; anguish; annas; answer; anxiety; anxious; apostles; appearance; archers; arimathea; arms; assistance; aware; awful; band; baptist; beautiful; bed; beginning; behold; beloved; best; bethania; bitter; blessed; blood; blows; bodies; body; book; bore; bosom; bread; brutal; building; caiphas; calm; calvary; care; carrying; cassius; catherine; cause; cave; centre; certain; chalice; chapter; chest; child; child jesus; children; christian; church; city; clear; cleophas; closed; clothes; come; companions; compassion; conduct; confusion; continued; convent; council; countenance; country; course; court; cries; crime; cross; crown; crucified; crucifixion; cruel; cure; dark; darkness; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deep; degree; desire; despair; determined; different; difficulty; direction; disciples; distance; divine; door; dost; dreadful; dress; drink; earth; ecstasy; effect; emmerich; end; enemies; entire; entrance; eternal; evening; events; evil; executioners; exhausted; expression; exterior; eyes; face; faith; fall; fallen; false; father; fear; fearful; feast; feelings; feet; festival; fire; flesh; flowers; following; food; foot; form; friday; friend; frightful; fro; future; galilean; garden; garment; gate; god; good; grace; great; greater; greatest; grief; grotto; guards; hair; half; hands; hard; hast; hatred; head; heart; heavenly; hell; herod; high; history; holy; holy women; home; hope; horror; hour; house; human; increase; inhabitants; inner; insulting; insults; interior; james; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; joseph; joy; judas; kind; king; kingdom; knees; known; labour; lamb; lance; language; large; law; lazarus; leave; left; legs; length; life; like; linen; lips; little; lived; living; long; longer; longinus; look; looking; lord; lord jesus; loud; love; magdalen; man; manner; mantle; march; mark; mary; master; means; meditations; members; mercy; midst; mind; mob; moment; money; morning; mother; mount; mountain; nature; near; necessary; neighbourhood; new; nicodemus; north; number; o'clock; occasion; olives; open; ophel; opposite; order; overcome; overwhelmed; pain; painful; parts; paschal; passion; patience; people; persons; peter; pharisees; pieces; pilate; pillar; pious; place; platform; pointed; pool; poor; position; possession; possible; power; prayer; preparations; presence; present; previous; priests; prison; private; procession; pronounced; prophet; public; regard; related; rest; resurrection; return; right; road; rock; roman; room; ropes; round; sabbath; sacrament; sacred; sacrifice; saints; salome; satan; save; saviour; saw; scourging; second; secret; sentence; sepulchre; seraphia; servants; set; sheet; short; shoulders; sides; silence; silent; similar; simon; sin; sins; sister; sleep; slightest; small; soldiers; solemn; son; sorrow; soul; south; species; spirit; spiritual; spot; spouse; standing; state; steps; stigmas; stone; streets; strength; strong; subject; sudden; sufferings; supper; support; tears; temple; terrible; terror; testimony; thee; thick; thieves; things; thorns; thou; thought; thy; time; tomb; torn; touching; town; traitor; tribunal; true; truth; unable; uttered; valley; veil; vestibule; violent; virgin; visions; voice; wall; water; way; weak; weeping; weight; west; white; wicked; wife; wine; witnesses; women; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; wounds; year; young cache: 10866.txt plain text: 10866.txt item: #3 of 18 id: 13294 author: Orr, Charles Ebert title: Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians date: None words: 30397 flesch: 83 summary: As bread sustains physical life, so the word of God sustains spiritual life. If your last thoughts in the evening and your earliest thoughts in the morning are of the loved one, you are being estranged from God and losing spiritual life. keywords: affections; air; angel; apostle; beautiful; beauty; behold; best; better; bible; blessed; blessings; blood; bright; care; cause; character; christian; christian life; church; communion; consciousness; crown; dark; day; day life; days; dear; death; declension; deep; desire; difficult; diligence; divine; divine life; dress; duty; earth; earthly; end; eternal; eternity; evil; experience; face; faith; father; fear; feed; feet; field; food; fragrance; fruit; fulness; garden; giving; glorious; glory; god; golden; good; gospel; grace; great; greater; greatest; growth; guide; hand; happiness; happy; heart; heaven; heavenly; holy; holy life; home; hope; hour; human; impressions; jesus; journey; joy; kingdom; labor; lambs; land; language; life; light; like; little; lives; long; look; lord; love; lowliness; man; matter; meaning; means; meditation; meek; meekness; men; mind; nature; nearer; nest; new; ones; paul; people; perfect; physical; place; pleasure; power; praise; prayer; precious; presence; privilege; pure; purity; reader; rest; rich; righteousness; river; saints; salvation; satan; savior; sea; secret; self; sense; service; sin; solitary; soul; spirit; spiritual; spiritual life; strength; sun; sweet; sweetness; tender; thee; things; think; thoughts; throne; time; touch; tree; true; trust; use; victory; voice; walk; want; waters; way; wings; words; work; world; worldly; years; young cache: 13294.txt plain text: 13294.txt item: #4 of 18 id: 14849 author: Steinmetz, Margaret Bird title: Leaves of Life, for Daily Inspiration date: None words: 69595 flesch: 89 summary: Alexander the Great born B. C. 356. For all sweet and pleasant passages in the great story of life men may well thank God; for leisure and ease and health and friendship may God make us truly and humbly grateful; but our chief song of thanksgiving must be always for our kinship with him, with all that such divinity of greatness brings of peril, hardship, toil, and sacrifice. keywords: --goethe; --hebrews; --job; --m.b.s; --unknown; able; actions; affliction; afraid; air; alexander; almighty; almighty god; answer; anthony; april; arnold; arthur; ashamed; august; b.c; battle; bear; beautiful; beauty; beecher; benson; best; better; bird; blessed; blessings; blind; blow; blue; body; born; brave; break; breast; breath; brethren; bright; brings; broken; brother; browning; calm; canst; care; careful; carlyle; cause; certain; channing; character; charles; cheerful; child; children; christopher; clear; clouds; cometh; comfort; common; company; compassion; confidence; conscience; content; control; corinthians; count; country; courage; creator; crown; daily; daniel; darkness; david; day; days; dead; dear; death; december; deeds; deep; delight; desire; despair; dew; die; divine; dost; doth; doubt; dream; duties; duty; earth; ease; easy; edmund; edward; edwin; eighteenth; eighth; eleventh; eliot; elizabeth; emerson; eternal; eternal god; eternal life; everett; evil; eyes; face; fail; fair; faith; faithful; fall; far; fast; father; faults; fear; february; feet; field; fifteenth; fifth; fill; fire; flowers; forth; forward; foundation; fourteenth; francis; frederick; free; freedom; friend; friendship; fruit; future; gain; general; genius; gentle; george; gifts; glad; gladness; glorious; glory; god; gold; good; goodness; grace; gracious; gracious father; grant; gray; great; greater; greatest; green; grief; guard; guide; half; hand; happiness; happy; hast; hath; head; heart; heaven; heavenly; heavenly father; help; henry; high; higher; highest; hill; hold; holy; home; honor; hope; hours; house; hugo; human; ideals; idle; immortal; indolence; influence; james; january; jean; jehovah; johann; john; johnson; joseph; joy; joys; judgment; july; june; justice; kind; kindness; king; kingdom; knowledge; labor; land; late; laugh; laws; lead; leaves; left; leisure; liberty; lie; life; light; like; lips; little; lives; long; longer; longfellow; look; lord; lord god; loss; lost; louis; love; loving; low; lowell; man; mankind; march; margaret; mark; mary; master; means; measure; memory; men; mercy; meredith; mind; misery; mistakes; mitchell; moments; morning; music; n.y; nature; near; need; neglect; neighbor; new; nineteenth; ninth; noble; november; o'er; october; oliver; open; pain; past; paths; patience; paul; peace; people; perfect; peter; pity; places; pleasure; poems; poor; possible; power; praise; prayer; precious; presence; present; president; pride; promises; pure; purpose; queen; quiet; rain; reach; ready; rejoice; rest; return; reward; richard; righteousness; rise; road; robert; rock; rose; rossetti; round; run; ruskin; russell; sad; sail; saint; sake; samuel; scott; sea; search; season; second; secret; secure; seek; self; selfishness; sense; september; service; set; seventeenth; seventh; shadow; shakespeare; share; short; silent; sir; sixteenth; sixth; sky; small; snow; song; sorrow; soul; speech; spirit; spring; stand; star; states; stevenson; storm; strength; strong; struggle; success; summer; sun; sweet; sympathy; task; taylor; temptation; tender; tenderness; tennyson; tenth; thank; thee; thine; things; thirteenth; thomas; thou; thoughts; thy; thy god; time; timothy; tis; toil; tongue; touch; tree; true; trust; truth; turn; twelfth; twentieth; understanding; united; use; useful; vain; value; view; virginia; virtue; vision; voice; von; wait; waldo; walk; walter; want; waste; watch; waters; wave; way; ways; weakness; wealth; weary; wherefore; white; whittier; wide; wild; william; willing; wilt; wind; wings; winter; wisdom; wise; wish; women; words; wordsworth; work; world; worthy; wrong; years; york; young; youth cache: 14849.txt plain text: 14849.txt item: #5 of 18 id: 18486 author: Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey) title: Quiet Talks on Following the Christ date: None words: 58779 flesch: 86 summary: It means that there is within us a life higher than the natural life, and this higher life is to _be_ higher, it is to be the _controlling_ life. Abraham is asked to become a separated man in a peculiar sense, separate outwardly, separate in his worship of the true God, and separate in living a _faith_ life. keywords: action; actual; ahead; answer; bad; beauty; beginning; best; bethlehem; better; bible; birth; bit; black; blessed; blood; body; book; break; broken; calls; calvary; certain; change; character; chief; choice; christ; christian; church; city; clear; climbing; close; coming; command; common; compassion; concerned; control; cost; course; cross; crowds; cutting; daily; dark; day; days; dead; death; decision; deeper; degree; dependent; dependent life; different; disciples; earnest; earth; edge; emergency; experience; extreme; eyes; face; fact; faith; family; far; father; feel; feeling; feet; fellow; fellowship; fine; finger; fire; followers; following; free; fresh; friend; friendship; gentle; gethsemane; getting; glad; glory; god; going; good; gospel; gracious; great; group; habit; half; hand; hard; heart; hebrews; help; hidden; high; higher; hill; hilltops; hold; holy; home; human; human life; hurt; image; inner; intense; isaiah; jesus; john; jordan; judas; keeping; key; knife; known; language; lead; leadership; left; life; like; line; little; lives; living; lone; long; look; looking; lord; lord jesus; love; luke; luxury; man; marked; master; matthew; meaning; means; men; message; midst; mind; ministry; minor; moment; money; morning; mother; music; nation; natural; nature; nazareth; need; new; new life; note; obedience; old; olivet; open; outer; outward; pain; passion; patient; paul; people; personal; peter; picture; place; plan; pleasing; point; poor; possible; power; practical; prayer; presence; pure; purity; purpose; quiet; race; rare; reach; real; red; result; resurrection; rich; right; road; rough; round; sacrifice; sake; salt; school; second; self; sense; service; set; simple; sin; sore; sort; speaking; spirit; spoken; stand; standing; steady; step; story; strange; strength; strong; suffering; sweet; sympathy; talk; teaching; temptation; tender; terrific; test; thee; thing; thinking; thought; threads; time; tomb; touch; traits; trees; tremendous; true; true life; truth; turn; understanding; upper; upward; use; valley; victory; vision; voice; waiting; walking; way; wilderness; willing; woman; wondrous; word; work; working; wrong; years; young cache: 18486.txt plain text: 18486.txt item: #6 of 18 id: 18701 author: None title: Choice Readings for the Home Circle date: None words: 106514 flesch: 83 summary: By this time he had acquired convivial habits, and often drank freely with other young men of his age. There was a widow with her fatherless children; feeble age tottered on missing the strong arm of manhood on which it had been accustomed to lean; little children, motherless, walked with demure steps by their father's side; and there a lonely couple thinking of the little ones that used to follow them with dancing steps. keywords: account; afraid; afternoon; age; air; albert; alice; angels; angry; answer; anxious; arms; arthur; away; bad; bank; basket; bear; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; belle; bent; best; better; bible; bill; black; blessed; blessing; blood; book; bosom; boy; boys; bridget; bright; broken; brother; burst; business; busy; captain; care; carman; case; cast; cents; chair; chamber; change; character; cheerful; children; christ; christian; christmas; church; cigars; city; clara; clear; close; clothes; clothing; cold; comfort; comfortable; coming; company; continued; conversation; conway; corner; cost; cottage; countenance; country; course; cruel; cry; cut; daily; dark; darkness; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; debt; deep; desire; dick; different; dinner; direction; doctor; dollars; door; doubt; dress; drink; duty; early; earnest; earth; easy; edgar; edward; effort; evening; evil; example; expense; experience; eyes; face; fact; faint; fair; faith; fall; family; fannie; far; farm; farmer; fashionable; father; fear; fearful; feeling; feet; fellow; fence; fine; fingers; fire; following; food; foot; form; fortune; free; fresh; friend; future; generous; gentle; gentleman; gift; girl; giving; glad; god; golden; good; grandmother; grave; great; greater; green; grown; habit; half; hand; happiness; happy; hard; head; health; heart; hearted; heaven; heavenly; heavy; help; henry; herrings; high; history; hold; holy; home; honest; honor; hope; hour; house; humble; husband; illustration; indian; influence; interest; israel; jacob; james; jesus; john; jonas; journey; joy; kind; kindly; kindness; kitchen; known; labor; lady; land; large; late; laugh; lay; leave; leaving; lee; left; length; lesson; lewis; life; like; lips; little; long; longer; look; looking; lord; loss; lost; love; loving; lyman; madam; maggie; mamma; man; manner; married; mary; mate; matter; mean; meet; meeting; men; merchant; mercy; merton; miles; mind; minister; minutes; miss; mistake; moment; money; months; moral; morning; mother; mrs; mulford; music; nature; near; necessary; neck; need; nellie; new; night; noble; note; occasion; offer; old; old man; ones; open; order; organ; pale; papa; paper; parents; parlor; party; pass; past; path; pay; people; perfect; person; peter; peyton; place; plain; play; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; pocket; poor; possible; power; praise; prayer; precious; prepared; presence; present; pretty; property; proud; pure; purpose; question; quick; quiet; randal; read; reading; real; reason; record; red; refuge; religion; religious; reply; rest; result; return; rich; river; room; rose; round; ruin; run; sabbath; sad; sake; salary; sam; sand; satisfaction; satisfied; saviour; saying; scene; school; seat; secret; self; sense; service; set; shadow; shop; short; sick; silence; silent; simple; sir; sister; sitting; sleep; small; smile; smoke; society; son; sorrow; sorry; soul; spirit; squire; stairs; state; station; stay; step; stop; store; stranger; street; strength; strong; success; successful; suffering; sullivan; summer; sun; sunshine; supper; support; sure; surprise; susie; sweet; table; taggard; talk; taste; teacher; tear; temptation; tender; terrible; thank; thee; things; thinking; thought; thy; tiger; till; time; tobacco; tom; tone; town; train; trembling; trouble; true; trust; truth; uncle; usual; vain; value; village; voice; waiting; walk; want; warm; watch; water; way; weary; week; white; wicked; wife; wilcox; william; willing; window; winter; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; worth; wrong; years; young; young man; youth cache: 18701.txt plain text: 18701.txt item: #7 of 18 id: 1953 author: MacDonald, George title: A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul date: None words: 22341 flesch: 91 summary: But thou art life, and thou hast life for me. Up from the great river's brim Comes a cold breath; the farther bank is dim; The heaven is black with clouds and coming rain; High soaring faith is grown a heavy task, And all is wrong with weary heart and brain. keywords: air; arms; best; better; bliss; body; brain; break; breath; bring; brother; care; child; christ; clear; cold; content; creation; cries; cry; dark; darkness; day; dead; dear; death; deep; dim; divine; door; dost; doth; doubt; draw; dream; dull; earth; eternal; eyes; face; fair; faith; fall; fancy; far; father; fear; feet; find; fire; flower; foolish; free; god; gold; good; great; half; hand; hard; heart; heaven; help; high; hold; holy; home; hope; house; human; infinite; joy; land; law; leaves; lie; life; light; like; little; live; living; long; look; lord; love; low; making; man; master; mean; men; mere; mighty; mind; moment; mood; morn; mother; near; nearer; need; new; old; open; pain; pass; patience; peace; perfect; poor; power; prayer; presence; pure; rest; rise; round; run; rush; save; sea; seen; self; set; shadow; shape; sleep; slow; soft; son; song; sore; soul; spirit; straight; strength; strife; strong; sun; sure; sweet; swift; thee; things; think; thou; thou art; thou dost; thou wilt; thought; thy; time; tis; true; trust; truth; turn; way; weary; wilt; wind; window; wings; words; work; world; wrong; yea cache: 1953.txt plain text: 1953.txt item: #8 of 18 id: 22189 author: Trotter, I. Lilias (Isabella Lilias) title: Parables of the Cross date: None words: 7386 flesch: 81 summary: Life leads on to new death, and new death back to life again. We were created for more than our own spiritual development; reproduction, not mere development, is the goal of matured being--reproduction in other lives. keywords: christ; cross; day; dead; death; dying; faith; flower; free; fresh; fruit; gate; giving; glory; god; growth; hands; hold; holiness; jesus; leaf; leaves; lesson; life; light; like; little; look; love; man; means; nature; need; new; old; place; plant; power; sacrifice; seed; self; sin; soul; spirit; spring; stage; surrender; things; time; way; work; world; year cache: 22189.txt plain text: 22189.txt item: #9 of 18 id: 22432 author: Trotter, I. Lilias (Isabella Lilias) title: Parables of the Christ-life date: None words: 10803 flesch: 78 summary: It is like our annuals on a large scale, for it flowers and seeds but once in its career, though that numbers more years than these can count weeks. So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. keywords: aim; bare; birth; christ; come; creation; day; days; death; divine; earth; eternal; faith; far; field; flesh; flower; free; ghost; glory; god; grass; hand; heart; heavenly; holy; hour; jesus; kingdom; leaf; leaves; lesson; life; light; like; little; lives; long; look; lord; loss; man; ministry; moment; natural; nature; need; new; old; outward; parable; perils; place; plant; power; purpose; quickening; reach; ready; seed; self; service; set; soul; spirit; spiritual; spring; things; time; touch; treasure; turn; vessel; way; wind; wonderful; work; working; world; years cache: 22432.txt plain text: 22432.txt item: #10 of 18 id: 27852 author: Sylvain, Adrien title: Gold Dust: A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life date: None words: 23614 flesch: 81 summary: What is done by these poor people and little children for the gold dust GOD has sown in those obscure rivers, we would do with those counsels and teachings which GOD has sown almost everywhere, which sparkle, enlighten, and inspire for a moment, then disappear, leaving but regret that the thought did not occur to collect and treasure them. A young girl, in one of those moments when the heart seems to overflow with devotion, wrote thus in her journal: If I dared, I would ask GOD why I am placed in the world; what have I to do? keywords: account; act; action; affection; alas; better; blessed; book; care; cause; child; children; christ; comfort; communion; conscience; counsels; cross; daily; day; days; dear; deeds; desire; devoted; devotion; devout; dislike; divine; duties; duty; earth; ennui; eye; family; father; fear; feeling; friend; god; gold; good; grace; gracious; grant; great; guide; hand; happiness; happy; hard; harm; hast; heart; heaven; help; holy; hour; humble; interior; jesus; joy; labor; life; like; lips; little; long; longer; look; lord; love; loving; means; meek; mercy; mind; moment; mother; near; need; order; pain; pardon; peace; pleasure; poor; power; praise; prayer; presence; present; pride; providence; renunciation; rest; result; right; sacrifice; self; simple; sin; smile; soul; spirit; strength; success; suffering; sweet; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; time; trouble; true; voice; want; way; wish; words; work; world; years cache: 27852.txt plain text: 27852.txt item: #11 of 18 id: 29096 author: Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel) title: Memoranda Sacra date: None words: 29048 flesch: 71 summary: Memoranda Sacra BY J. RENDEL HARRIS FOURTH EDITION HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON MCMVII TO MY BELOVED IN CHRIST JESUS It pleased God, in the days when we used to meet together in Cambridge for His worship and for personal help, to draw us unitedly very close to Himself, so that few of us are likely to forget the seasons of refreshing which we enjoyed from His presence; and if, by His good providence, any of us meet in these later days, one of the readiest sentences to rise to our lips is the word, Do you remember? The papers which make up this little volume were originally designed to the same end, the remembrance of one another, and of the truths which God taught us. keywords: able; addition; ancient; answer; apostle; beginning; believing; best; better; book; broad; candle; certain; character; children; christ; christian; church; city; coming; commandments; consecration; content; day; days; dead; death; definite; different; disciples; divine; double; dying; earth; end; eternal; existence; exodus; experience; eyes; face; fact; faith; faithful; far; father; fear; flesh; force; future; glory; god; going; good; grace; great; greek; hand; hard; hath; heart; heaven; help; high; highest; holiness; holy; home; house; human; humility; idea; iii; impossible; instance; intermittent; jerusalem; jesus; john; kingdom; knowledge; lamb; land; life; light; like; little; lives; living; long; look; lord; lord jesus; love; man; manner; master; means; men; mercy; mind; moses; mount; nature; necessary; need; new; old; order; original; passage; pattern; peace; people; perfect; peter; point; power; prayer; presence; present; privilege; pure; real; religion; religious; remember; rest; revelation; righteousness; river; saint; saying; scripture; second; secret; self; sense; similar; simple; sin; small; son; sorrow; soul; spake; special; spirit; spiritual; spiritual life; state; strength; strong; sum; surrender; test; text; thee; things; thou; thought; throne; thy; time; transfiguration; true; truth; verse; victory; want; water; way; words; work; world; worship cache: 29096.txt plain text: 29096.txt item: #12 of 18 id: 31647 author: Havergal, Frances Ridley title: Kept for the Master's Use date: None words: 39516 flesch: 83 summary: And when once we really grasp this (hardly so much by faith as by love itself), the will of God cannot be otherwise than acceptable, for it is no longer a question of trusting that somehow or other there is a hidden element of love in it, but of understanding that it _is_ love; no more to be dissociated from it than the power of the sun's rays can be dissociated from their light and warmth. Lord Jesus, Thou hast trodden once for all The Via Dolorosa,--and for us! keywords: able; answer; beautiful; beloved; best; better; blessed; blessing; book; care; case; certain; chapter; children; christ; clear; comfort; coming; consecration; course; dark; day; days; dear; death; desire; divine; drawing; earth; entrusted; established; eternity; everlasting; experience; eyes; face; fact; faith; faithful; faithfulness; far; father; fear; feet; flow; force; free; friends; fruit; fulfil; gentle; gift; glad; glorious; glory; god; gold; good; grace; gracious; great; greater; ground; half; hand; happy; hard; hast; hath; head; heart; help; hidden; holy; hope; hour; human; idea; iii; impulse; infinite; influence; intellect; jesus; jesus christ; joy; keeping; kind; king; knowledge; left; life; light; like; line; lips; literal; little; lives; long; look; lord; lord jesus; lost; love; loving; man; master; means; mere; mighty; mind; moment; money; music; natural; need; new; ones; open; pain; past; path; people; perfect; place; pleasant; pleasing; point; poor; position; power; praise; prayer; precious; present; promise; proportion; question; ready; real; rest; riches; room; royal; sacred; sake; satisfied; saviour; saying; self; sense; service; set; silver; simple; singing; small; song; sort; soul; special; spirit; stand; step; strength; strong; sweet; taking; talk; temptation; thee; thing; thou; thought; throne; thy; time; touch; treasure; true; trust; trusting; turn; use; vessels; voice; want; watching; way; weak; weary; willing; wisdom; wish; witness; wonderful; word; work; working; year cache: 31647.txt plain text: 31647.txt item: #13 of 18 id: 42657 author: Spurgeon, C. H. (Charles Haddon) title: Gleanings among the Sheaves date: None words: 36083 flesch: 85 summary: There never yet was a heavenly thought, a hallowed deed, or a consecrated act, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ, which was not worked in us by the Holy Spirit. Thanks be unto God, the soft south wind breathes upon our soul, and at once the waters of desire are set free, the spring of love cometh on, flowers of hope appear in our hearts, the trees of faith put forth their young shoots, the time of the singing-birds cometh in our hearts, and we have joy and peace in believing through the Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: able; affliction; angel; apostle; battle; bear; believer; beloved; best; better; bible; blessed; blessing; bliss; blood; bright; broken; canst; character; child; children; chosen; christ; christian; church; clear; come; cometh; comfort; coming; communion; consolation; content; cross; crown; daily; darkness; day; death; deep; delight; divine; dost; doth; doubt; duty; earth; end; eternal; experience; eye; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; father; fear; feet; flesh; fruit; fulness; future; garments; glad; glorious; glory; god; gold; golden; good; gospel; grace; gracious; great; hand; happiness; happy; hath; head; heart; heaven; heavenly; hell; high; hold; holiness; holy; home; honor; hope; hour; house; humility; inheritance; jesus; jesus christ; job; joy; joys; king; knowledge; land; left; life; light; like; little; live; living; long; look; lord; lord jesus; lost; love; man; mark; master; men; mercies; mercy; midst; mighty; moment; nature; near; need; new; peace; people; perfect; poor; power; praise; prayer; precious; present; promise; rain; reason; religion; remember; rest; rich; righteousness; room; saints; salvation; satan; saviour; sea; seasons; self; shining; sin; sinners; sleep; son; song; sorrow; soul; spirit; strength; strong; sun; sweet; sympathy; taste; tell; temptation; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; throne; thy; time; tree; trials; troubles; true; trust; unbelief; voice; walk; water; way; wine; wish; words; work; world cache: 42657.txt plain text: 42657.txt item: #14 of 18 id: 4544 author: None title: The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 date: None words: 34302 flesch: 76 summary: For to him that will be soon sped of his purpose ghostly, it sufficeth to him for a mean, and him needeth no more, but the actual mind of good God only, with a reverent stirring of lasting love; so that mean unto God gettest thou none but God. And unto the time that thou mayst know what it is, work after those men's counsel that know their own disposition, but not after their disposition;[277] for such men should give counsel in such cases, and else none. keywords: abstinence; affection; angels; asher; beginning; beholding; behoveth; benjamin; best; better; bilhah; blessed; bliss; bodily; body; book; cap; capitulum; catherine; cause; caxton; certain; charity; children; christ; church; cleped; cloud; cometh; comfort; common; company; conne; conscience; consent; contemplation; counsel; creature; crown; custom; dan; daughter; day; death; desires; devotion; devout; discretion; disposition; divine; doctrine; doth; doubt; dread; dwelling; eating; enemies; enemy; english; epistle; evil; fall; false; fasting; feeleth; feeling; fiend; flesh; fleshly; followeth; forth; foul; fruit; gad; gen; ghostly; god; good; goodness; grace; great; harl; hate; hath; hatred; heart; heaven; heavenly; high; hilton; holy; hope; horstman; imagination; inward; issachar; jacob; jesu; joseph; joy; kempe; kind; knowing; knowledge; latin; leah; life; like; list; little; long; lord; love; loving; lust; maiden; man; manner; mean; measured; meed; men; mercy; mights; mind; minor; mirror; mss; mystical; naphtali; nought; office; oft; onehead; pain; party; patience; peace; pepwell; perfection; prayer; psalm; rachel; reason; reverent; richard; riseth; rolle; said; saint; saith; seeth; self; sensuality; shall; shame; shouldest; sight; silence; sin; singular; sins; song; soon; sorrow; soul; sound; speaketh; speaking; spirit; springeth; stirrings; story; strong; sweetness; symbolism; temptations; thee; thine; things; thinketh; thou; thou art; thou mayst; thoughts; thy; time; treatise; tree; true; understanding; unknowing; use; vain; victor; virtue; vulgate; walter; way; wete; wilt; wisdom; wise; wits; work; working; world; worldly; worthy; zilpah cache: 4544.txt plain text: 4544.txt item: #15 of 18 id: 45795 author: Gravengaard, N. P. (Niels Peter) title: A Christmas Gift to the American Home and the Youth of America date: None words: 32449 flesch: 82 summary: The poor fellow righted himself a little and answered: What mother taught me; he then folded his hands and spoke the following verse with perfect ease, and without mistakes: Lord Jesus, who dost love me, O, spread thy wings above me, And shield me from alarm. If your soul then is seen to have suffered corruption, it is not fit to enter into eternal life, and you have nothing else to give God in its place. keywords: able; age; almighty; america; ancient; angels; answer; asked; battlefield; beings; better; bit; blessedness; burdens; case; certain; child; children; christian; christmas; church; darkness; day; days; dear; death; difficult; disciples; doubt; earth; end; eternal; evening; events; evil; eyes; fact; faith; father; fear; feel; fellow; field; free; gain; general; germany; glory; god; good; grace; great; greatest; hand; happiness; happy; healing; heart; heaven; heavenly; heavy; hidden; home; honor; hope; hours; howard; human; jesus; joy; language; laws; life; like; lincoln; little; lives; living; look; lord; love; man; mankind; march; matter; means; men; miracle; moments; morning; mother; nations; nature; need; new; old; order; paul; people; place; poor; possible; power; prayer; protection; reason; rest; resurrection; right; room; sake; saying; science; sea; secret; seen; shield; sin; smile; son; sorrow; soul; spirit; strange; strength; strong; struggle; suffering; things; think; thou; thought; thy; time; true; truth; use; vain; victory; want; war; water; way; ways; wife; wind; wisdom; wish; woman; words; work; world; wounded; wounds; year; young; youth; zacchæus cache: 45795.txt plain text: 45795.txt item: #16 of 18 id: 50916 author: Macduff, John R. (John Ross) title: Evening Incense date: None words: 19292 flesch: 81 summary: May I spend each day as if possibly it were my last, so that should the midnight cry break upon my ears, Prepare to meet Thy God, it might be to me no unexpected summons, but as an angel whispering, The Master is come and calleth for thee. Thou art ever giving me impressive remembrances that at such an hour as I think not, the summons may come, Prepare to meet Thy God. keywords: anew; awake; beloved; best; better; blessed; blessing; blood; care; charge; child; christ; church; covenant; cross; daily; darkness; day; dealings; dear; death; desire; duties; dying; earth; earthly; evening; evening sacrifice; everlasting; evil; eye; faith; faithfulness; father; favor; fear; finished; friends; future; glorious; glory; god; good; grace; gracious; great; guilty; hands; heart; heaven; heavenly; holy; hope; hour; incense; infinite; jesus; joy; kindness; kingdom; life; lifting; like; live; living; long; lord; love; man; men; mercies; mercy; morning; near; nearer; need; night; past; path; peace; people; portion; power; prayer; presence; redeemer; rest; righteousness; sacrifice; sake; saviour; self; sense; service; set; sin; sins; sleep; sorrow; soul; sovereign; spirit; temptation; thee; thine; things; thou; thou art; thought; throne; thy; time; trial; trust; unworthy; voice; walk; way; wisdom; work; world cache: 50916.txt plain text: 50916.txt item: #17 of 18 id: 52958 author: Julian, of Norwich title: Revelations of Divine Love date: None words: 82369 flesch: 80 summary: This is that which is meant where it is said afore: it was the image and likeness of our foul black deeds' shame wherein our fair, bright, blessed Lord God was hid. Truth seeth God, and Wisdom beholdeth God, and of these two cometh the third: that is a holy, marvelling delight in God; which is Love. keywords: adam; aforesaid; almighty; anchoress; anent; anon; answer; beginning; beholdeth; beholding; behoveth; belongeth; best; better; blame; blessed; blessed soul; blindness; bliss; blissful; blood; bodily; body; book; broken; carrow; cause; chapter; charity; cheer; child; children; christ; christians; church; city; clothing; colour; cometh; comfort; coming; common; compassion; contrition; countenance; courteous; courteous lord; creature; cressy; cross; day; dearworthy; death; deed; deep; delight; desire; despair; diverse; divine; doeth; double; doubt; dread; dry; dwelleth; dwelling; dying; earth; endless; endless love; enemy; enjoying; everlasting; evil; example; experience; eyes; face; fair; faith; falling; far; father; feebleness; feeling; fell; flesh; following; forth; fulfilled; fulfilling; fulness; general; ghost; ghostly; gift; glad; god; god willeth; godhead; good; goodness; grace; gracious; great; great love; ground; hard; hate; hath; having; heart; heaven; heavenly; hell; help; high; higher; highest; holy; holy ghost; homely; hope; human; hurt; i.e.; image; intent; inward; jesus; jesus christ; joy; julian; keepeth; keeping; knowing; knowledge; known; lady; large; leading; leave; left; life; like; likeness; little; long; longing; look; looking; lord god; lord jesus; lost; love; lovely; loveth; loving; lower; lowest; maker; making; man; manhood; mankind; manner; manuscript; marvelled; marvellous; matter; meaneth; meaning; means; meed; meekly; meekness; men; mercy; methought; mighty; mind; mother; motherhood; mourning; mystical; natural; nature; near; need; needful; new; noble; nought; oftentimes; oned; oneing; oneness; outward; overpassing; pain; painful; parts; passion; peace; penance; perfect; person; pity; pleasance; pleased; pleaseth; pleasing; plenteous; point; prayer; precious; privy; profit; properties; property; ready; reason; recluse; regard; rejoicing; rest; revelation; reverent; rightfulness; rise; said; saint; salvation; save; saviour; second; seeing; seen; seeth; self; sense; servant; service; set; shewed; sheweth; shewing; sickness; sight; simple; sin; sins; solace; son; sorrow; soul; sovereign; special; speech; spiritual; standeth; substance; suffereth; sure; sweet; sweetly; taketh; teacheth; teaching; tender; thanking; thee; thereto; therewith; things; thirst; thou; thought; thy; time; touching; travail; tribulation; trinity; true; trust; truth; understanding; version; virtue; vision; way; weal; willeth; wisdom; wise; woe; word; worketh; working; works; worship; worshipful; wounds; wrath; wretchedness; years cache: 52958.txt plain text: 52958.txt item: #18 of 18 id: 9184 author: Camus, Jean-Pierre title: The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales date: None words: 144761 flesch: 70 summary: For to say beautiful things in fluent and well-chosen words shows indeed the learning and eloquence of a man; but the conversion of sinners and their departing from their evil ways is the sure sign that God has spoken by the mouth of the preacher, that he possesses the true power of speech, which is inspired by the science of the Saints, and that he proclaims worthily in the name of Almighty God that perfect law which is the salvation of souls. No one can reach the last and supreme end, God Himself, without charity; it is the way to Him. keywords: able; absolute; account; accustomed; act; actions; acts; advice; affection; afraid; aim; almighty god; almsgiving; altogether; ancient; angels; annecy; answer; apostle; aspirations; attention; augustine; austerities; authority; bad; bearing; beautiful; beginning; belley; beloved; best; better; birth; bishop; bitterness; blessed; blessed father; blessed francis; blood; bodily; body; book; bread; brethren; brother; burden; burning; calling; calm; camus; cardinal; care; careful; case; catholic; certain; change; chap; charity; chastity; children; chosen; christ; christian; church; circumstances; city; close; command; common; company; complain; condition; confession; confidence; congregation; conscience; consideration; consolation; contempt; content; continued; contrary; convents; conversation; cor; correct; country; courage; course; court; creatures; cross; crosses; crown; crucified; danger; darkness; daughter; david; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; degree; delight; desire; despise; devoted; devotion; devout; different; difficulties; difficulty; diocese; direction; director; divine; divine love; doubt; duties; duty; eager; earth; earthly; easy; effect; end; enemies; enemy; episcopal; equal; escape; esteem; eternal; eternity; evil; exact; example; excellent; excuse; exercise; experience; exterior; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; faith; faithful; fall; false; fasting; fathers; faults; fear; feast; feed; feelings; feet; fellow; finding; fine; fire; flesh; flock; fly; following; follows; food; footnote; form; france; francis; free; friends; friendship; fruit; gain; general; geneva; gentleness; glory; god; good; good father; good works; goodness; gospel; grace; great; greater; greatest; guide; habit; hand; happiness; happy; head; health; heart; heaven; heavenly; hell; help; hidden; high; highest; hold; holiness; holy; holy bishop; holy love; honour; hope; house; human; humble; humility; iii; ill; imperfections; increase; indifference; infinite; instance; insults; intention; interior; inward; jesus; job; john; joy; judge; judgment; justice; kind; know; knowledge; labour; lady; language; law; lead; leave; left; lesson; letters; liberty; life; light; like; lips; little; live; living; long; longer; look; lord; loss; lost; love; making; man; manner; marvellous; mass; matter; meaning; means; members; memory; men; mental; mercy; mere; merit; midst; mind; miserable; misery; moment; money; mortal; mortification; mother; motive; natural; nature; nay; necessary; need; neighbour; new; number; nuns; obedience; object; occasion; office; oil; old; ones; opinion; order; pain; paradise; paris; particular; passions; patience; patient; paul; penance; penitents; people; perfection; person; peter; philothea; piety; pious; place; pleased; pleasing; pleasure; point; poor; pope; possess; possible; poverty; power; powerful; practise; praise; prayer; preachers; preaching; precious; prelate; presence; present; pride; priest; prince; private; profit; progress; proper; prophet; providence; prudence; psalm; psalmist; public; pure; purgatory; purity; purpose; qualities; question; rank; ready; real; reason; regards; religion; religious; remarkable; reputation; respect; rest; return; reward; rich; riches; rom; room; round; rule; sacred; sacrifice; said; saint; sake; sales; salvation; save; saviour; savoy; saying; scripture; second; secret; self; sense; sermons; servants; service; set; severe; severity; short; sick; sickness; silence; simplicity; sin; single; sinner; sins; sisters; small; solitude; soul; sovereign; speaking; special; spirit; spiritual; state; strength; strong; stronger; subject; suffering; sufficient; superior; supernatural; support; sweetness; taught; teaching; temptation; thee; theotimus; things; things god; thorns; thought; thy; time; treatise; tree; trouble; true; trust; truth; turn; unable; unhappy; united; use; useful; vain; value; vanity; venial; view; viii; virtue; virtuous; visitation; vocation; voice; vow; want; water; way; ways; weak; weakness; wicked; wife; wills; wisdom; wise; wish; wishes; woman; words; work; world; worldly; worthy; writing; wrong; years; young; youth; zeal cache: 9184.txt plain text: 9184.txt