| Miriam Coles Harris - 1871 - 492 páginas
...God did not give it to you. And He does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men : like as a father pitieth his own children, so is the Lord merciful to them that fear Him . Think how hard it must be for Him to punish us, Nattee ; think how He is pitying you to-night, how... | |
| Francis Edward Paget - 1875 - 228 páginas
...I am, I cannot despond, still less despair, when of Him I am taught that, for CHRIST'S sake, " like as a father pitieth his own children, so is the LORD merciful unto them that fear Him." There, my dear Robin, is the balm for all your woes ! — ND Surely what... | |
| Richard Johnstone - 1881 - 194 páginas
...strongest temptation of all, which you must fight against with all your power. Remember that " Like as a father pitieth his own children, so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear Him," and that He will not suffer you to be tempted above that you can bear, but... | |
| Edward Lewes Cutts - 1882 - 150 páginas
...about them ; certainly he does not cast the child off on account of them. And the Psalmist says, " Like as a father pitieth his own children, so is the Lord merciful to them that fear Him, for He knoweth whereof we are made, He remembereth that we are but dust " (Ps. ciii. 13, 14). But we... | |
| Edward Baines (rector of Bluntisham.) - 1883 - 374 páginas
...ever occur to you, as to him, in the dark hour, take also his other words of joy and confidence, " Even as a father pitieth his own children, so is the Lord merciful to them that love Him. For look how wide the east is from the west, so far hath He set our sins from us." Say with... | |
| First Church (Cambridge, Mass.), First Parish (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1886 - 182 páginas
...that fear Him. Look how wide also the east is from the west, so far hath He set our sins from us. Like as a father pitieth his own children, so is the Lord merciful to them that fear Him. XI. ADDRESS. HON. OLIVER W. HOLMES, JR. XII. ADDRESS. RF.V. FREDERIC H. HEDGE, DD XIV. PSALM 106. From... | |
| Euphans H. Strain - 1895 - 302 páginas
...have doubted, since I had a child of my own, which way of looking at this was the more Divine. ' Like as a father pitieth his own children, so is the Lord merciful to them that fear Him' — 'twas the Psalm for the day when Roland was christened. And then, how it goes, ' For He knoweth... | |
| Roundell Palmer Earl of Selborne - 1896 - 544 páginas
...once said to me, that it seemed especially intended to lead up our minds and hearts to God : " Like as a father pitieth his own children, so is the Lord merciful towards them that fear him." I have found myself, and I should hope you also may find, that the influence... | |
| Novello & Company - 1898 - 844 páginas
...Him. 12. Look how wide also the east is from the west ; so far hath He set our sins from us. 13. Like as a father pitieth his own children, so is the LORD merciful to them that fear Him. MARTIN. 1461 FE GLADSTONE, Psalm ciii. vv. 8, 10-12, 8, 10, 13. 1462 PSALM xxxiii. i. Rejoice in the... | |
| John Paterson Smyth - 1914 - 240 páginas
...redeemeth thy life from destruction, Who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies. . . . Like as a father pitieth his own children, so is the Lord merciful to them that fear Him, for He knoweth our frame, He remembereth that we are but dust. "Lord, who shall sojourn in Thy tabernacle,... | |
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