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Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
CHAPTER XXXIII You must know that it is very injurious to begin with this branch of philosophy, viz., Metaphysics; or to explain [at first] the sense of the similes occurring in prophecies, and interpret the metaphors which are employed in historical accounts and which abound in the writings of the Prophets.
Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
CHAPTER XXXV Do not think that what we have laid down in the preceding chapters on the importance, obscurity, and difficulty of the subject,…
Institutes of the Christian Religion by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
CHAPTER 19. OF THE FIVE SACRAMENTS, FALSELY SO CALLED. THEIR SPURIOUSNESS PROVED, AND THEIR TRUE CHARACTER EXPLAINED. There are two divisions of this chapter,—I.
Institutes of the Christian Religion by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
CHAPTER 19. OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY. The three divisions of this chapter are,—I. Necessity of the doctrine of Christian Liberty, sec.…
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 60: 1914 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him, and He will show them His Covenant." Psalm 25:14. THIS text is a great deep, but at the outset we must say that we have neither the time nor the skill at this time to attempt to fathom it.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
Job’s Regret and Our Own A Sermon (No. 1011) Delivered on Lord’s-day Morning, September 17th, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington “Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; as I was in the days of my youth,…
NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Introduction. ———————————— Chapter I.—The Life and Writings of St. Hilary of Poitiers. St. Hilary of Poitiers is one of the greatest, yet least studied, of the Fathers of the Western Church.
NPNF1-06. St. Augustine: Sermon on the Mount; Harmony of the Gospels; Homilies on the Gospels by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
t Took Place in the Early Morning, Previous to the Delivery of Jesus to Pilate; And of the Question Touching the Passage Which is Quoted on the Subject of the Price Set Upon the Lord, and Which is Ascribed to Jeremiah by Matthew, Although No Such Paragraph is Found in the Writings of that Prophet.
Anonymous (Bible) by Anonymous (Bible)
... confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret. For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won ...
Story of a Soul (l'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux by Therese, of Lisieux, St. (1873-1897)
Most of what follows has been gathered from the conversations of Soeur Thérèse with her novices. Her advice cannot but prove helpful to souls within the cloister, and likewise to many in the world who may be attracted by her simple and easy little way to God.