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Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 41: 1895 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother: bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them about your neck. When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.
Holy Wisdom: or, Directions for the Prayer of Contemplation by Baker, Augustine (1517-1641)
CHAPTER IV. §§ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Motives inducing to religion to be examined. False security of tepid religious persons. Of false and true motives. § 6. An habitual state of introversion and recollectedness is the principal end of a religious life; wherein such recollectedness consists.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Elevation Of Justin The Elder.—Reign Of Justinian.—I. The Empress Theodora.—II. Factions Of The Circus, And Sedition Of Constantinople.—III. Trade And Manufacture Of Silk.— IV.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 30: 1884 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Joseph of Arimathaea, an honorable counselor, who also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. And Pilate marveled if He were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether He had been any while dead.
Short and Easy Method of Prayer by Guyon, Madame Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Mothe (1647-1717)
CHAPTER XXIV Of the way to attain Divine Union It is impossible to attain Divine Union solely by the activity of meditation, or by the meltings of the affections, or even by the highest degree of luminous and distinctly-comprehended prayer.
Selected Sermons of Schleiermacher: translated by Mary F. Wilson. by Schleiermacher, Friedrich (1768-1834)
TEXT: EPH. vi. 4. IN making special mention of our children in our prayers, as we have done to-day, what we have chiefly in our thoughts is not merely to commend their earthly life and welfare, with all that affects it, to God’s gracious care; we are much more concerned to obtain a blessing on the unfolding of their spiritual faculties, that it may be carried on in a right way,…
Christ and His Salvation: In Sermons Variously Related Thereto by Bushnell, Horace (1802-1876)
“Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away and come again unto you.”—John xiv, 28. To go away and come again, or to go away in order to come again, would seem, taking the words -at their face, to be a rather idle or unmeaning operation; but if we can get far enough into the mind of Christ to apprehend his real meaning, we shall find that he is proposing, in these words,…
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 29: 1883 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
A Cure For Unsavory Meats—or, Salt for the White of an Egg (No. 1730) DELIVERED ON THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1883, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON.
Spiritual Progress by Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe (1651-1715)
CREATION. In the beginning God attacked us in externals; little by little he withdrew such of his creatures as we loved too much, and contrary to his law. But this outward work, though essential in laying the foundation of the building, goes but a little way towards the completion of the whole edifice.
Steps to Christ by White, Ellen Gould (1827-1915)
Chapter 11 The Privilege of Prayer Through nature and revelation, through His providence, and by the influence of His Spirit, God speaks to us. But these are not enough; we need also to pour out our hearts to Him.