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Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St Augustine by Harnack, Adolf (1851-1930)
II. So early as the beginning of the second century, a motley crowd of enquirers and believers began to knock at the doors of the Christian churches. Among them were men—usually called Gnostics—who were nourished and bewildered by the old and newest wisdom of the mysteries, but who were at the same time captivated by the evangelical message,…
Barnes' New Testament Notes by Barnes, Albert (1798-1870)
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW - Chapter 6 - Verse 32 Verses 32-34. For after all these things do the Gentiles seek. That is, those destitute of the true doctrines of religion, unacquainted with proper dependence on Divine Providence, make it their chief anxiety thus to seek food and raiment.
Barnes' New Testament Notes by Barnes, Albert (1798-1870)
THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JAMES - Chapter 1 - Verse 5 Verse 5. If any of you lack wisdom. Probably this refers particularly to the kind of wisdom which they would need in their trials,…
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
ANF09. The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, the Vision of Paul, The Apocalypse of the Virgin and Sedrach, The Testament of Abraham, The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, The Narrative of Zosimus, The Apology of Aristid by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Sixth Book. 1. The Work is Taken Up After a Violent Interruption, Which Has Driven the Writer from Alexandria. He Addresses Himself to It Again, with Thanks for His Deliverance,…
Commentary on Daniel - Volume 1 by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
11. Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 11. Et dixit Daniel ad Meltsar, quem constituerat praefectus eunuchorum super Danielem, Hananiah, Misael, et Azariah, 12.
Abandonment to Divine Providence by de Caussade, Jean-Pierre, S.J. (1675-1751)
SECTION I.—Confidence in God. The less the soul in the state of abandonment feels the help it receives from God, the more efficaciously does He sustain it. There is a kind of sanctity in which all the communications of God are luminous and distinct; but in the passive state of pure faith all that God communicates partakes of the nature of that inaccessible darkness that surrounds His throne,…
Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 by Arminius, Jacobus (1560-1609)
LAW. He allows not, or approves not of, that which he does; He wills indeed that which is good; He hates evil; He consents to the law of God that it is good; He has it [in him] to will that which is good; It is no longer himself that does evil; He truly delights in the law of God after the inward man; According to the law of his mind he wages war with the law of his members;…
To Be Near Unto God by Kuyper, Abraham (1837-1920)
107 "WHEN I WAS A CHILD." Our secret walk with the Eternal does not follow a fixed, uniform model. That which presents itself in this exceedingly holy and deeply spiritual domain in an imitated form, arouses the suspicion of insincerity.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
Founder of Christian monasticism. The chief source of information on St. Anthony is a Greek Life attributed to St. Athanasius, to be found in any edition of his works.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
In the technical sense of the term, spiritual direction is that function of the sacred ministry by which the Church guides the faithful to the attainment of eternal happiness.