Show only:
Classics only
Sort by:
CCEL Search results
Introduction to the Devout Life by Francis of Sales, St. (1567-1622)
SO much for what is to be done in times of spiritual consolations. But these bright days will not last for ever, and sometimes you will be so devoid of all devout feelings, that it will seem to you that your soul is a desert land, fruitless, sterile, wherein you can find no path leading to God, no drop of the waters of Grace to soften the dryness which threatens to choke it entirely.
Messiah Vol. 1 by Newton, John (1725-1807)
The Harbinger Isaiah 40:3-5 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD , make straight in the desert a high-way for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.
NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
In this letter, addressed to one who seems to have had some pre-eminence among the monks of the Chalcidian desert, Jerome complains of the hard treatment meted out to him because of his refusal to take any part in the great theological dispute then raging in Syria.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 58: 1912 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing, for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert." Isaiah 35:6. WHAT a difference Divine Grace makes whenever it enters the heart! We find here the blind, but they are not blind in one sense—Grace has touched their eyes and the eyes of the blind are opened!…
NPNF1-14. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... been driven from the possessions of our fathers, we have been deserted, we have become naked, and destitute ...
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 06: 1860 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.”—Isaiah 9:6. UPON OTHER OCCASIONS I have explained the main part of this verse—“the government shall be upon his shoulders, his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God.” If God shall spare me, on some future occasion I hope to take the other titles, “The Everlasting Father,…
NPNF1-06. St. Augustine: Sermon on the Mount; Harmony of the Gospels; Homilies on the Gospels by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Sermon XIX. [LXIX. Ben.] On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xix. 28, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden,” etc. 1. We heard in the Gospel that the Lord, rejoicing greatly in Spirit, said unto God the Father, “I confess to Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 45: 1899 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"It is written in the Prophets, 'And they shall be all taught of God.' Every man, therefore, that has heard and has learned of the Father, comes unto Me." John 6:45.
Early Years of Christianity: The Apostolic Era by Pressensé, Edmund Dehault de (1824-1891)
L. [See page 428.] ON THE AUTHENTICITY AND THE DATE OF THE APOCALYPSE. Notwithstanding the able and learned dissertations of Lücke on the passages of "the Fathers" which support the authenticity of the Apocalypse, those passages appear to us conclusive.
NPNF1-02. St. Augustine's City of God and Christian Doctrine by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
And on this account, Theodosius not only preserved during the lifetime of Gratian that fidelity which was due to him, but also, after his death, he, like a true Christian, took his little brother Valentinian under his protection, as joint emperor, after he had been expelled by Maximus, the murderer of his father.