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"I have told you: the sight of the chalice awoke my fury, and exclaiming, Defend thyself, I took my sword with both hands, and with a single blow dashed aside his shield and cleft his helmet. "But my sword broke; and at the moment when the Lion fell " Gottfried, with terror. Did Arnold then fall? Was Arnold killed? "So perish all who hate the Holy Church!
We love thee! thou knowest that we love thee! And we think, we are assured, that we can yet save thee, and ourselves too. Do not break our hearts by giving thyself up ere we have tried our utmost. It may be nay, I am assured of it that our blessed Saviour has a great work for thee to do for Him somewhere. Has He not Himself charged His servants if they be persecuted in one city to flee to another?
How art thou, when thou thinkest that thou thyself hast grace? "Oh, then," says the soul, "I am as if I could leap out of myself; joy, joy, joy then is in my heart. It is, methinks, the greatest mercy under heaven to be made a gracious man." And is it thus with thy soul indeed? Happy man! It is grace that has thy soul, though sin at present works in thy flesh.
'Think not that thou hast made any progress, I read, 'unless thou feel thyself inferior to all ... Behold how far off thou art yet from true charity and humility: which knows not how to be angry or indignant, with any except one's self. Night fell. The long, illuminated train roared and flashed on its invisible way under a dome of stars.
Who can tell us where to search? at the hospital or in the cemeteries?" At the last word she dropped into a seat, and her whole frame shook with her sobs. Jacques approached her tenderly, and kneeling by her side, said: "No, m'amie, comfort thyself, if it be indeed comfort to learn that thy son is alive and well. For my part, I know not if I would not rather he had died in his innocent childhood.
Where is thy fruit, barren fig-tree? How dost thou show thy carefulness, and clearing of thyself; thy indignation against sin; they fear of offending; thy vehement desire to walk with God; thy zeal for his name and glory in the world? And what revenge hast thou in thy heart against every thought of disobedience? But where is the fruit of this repentance?
Thyself, coming here, didst solicit me. Why then dost thou not take? ""Dharma said, 'Know ye both that I am Dharma himself. Let there be no dispute between you. Let the Brahmana become endued with the reward attaching to gift, and let the monarch also obtain the merit of Truth. ""Heaven said, 'Know, O great king, that I am Heaven's self in my embodied form, come hither in person.
Now there are his servants that do beseech you to accept of his grace, but if thou lose the opportunity that is put into thine hand, thou thyself mayest beseech hereafter, and no mercy be given thee. 'And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue. And thee was none given.
At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest, and free from all businesses. A man cannot any whither retire better than to his own soul; he especially who is beforehand provided of such things within, which whensoever he doth withdraw himself to look in, may presently afford unto him perfect ease and tranquillity.
"I have experienced the great benefit of being acquainted with the prophet for the last fourteen days." "But he's not a prophet," said Susannah resentfully. "Did'st thou never find thyself to be mistaken when thou wast most sure? Hast thou not perceived that thy Bible tells thee in many different ways that God chooses not as men choose?"
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