Pro Vita Monastica: An Essay in Defence of the Contemplative Virtues

Voorkant
Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923 - 164 pagina's
 

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Pagina 19 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own : but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Pagina 146 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, 'Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Pagina 128 - Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me : in the day when I call answer me speedily.
Pagina 133 - Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not ; for I am not yet ascended to my Father ; but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father ; and to my God and your God.
Pagina 127 - For my soul is full of troubles : and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Pagina 127 - For thou, LORD, art good, and ready to forgive ; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
Pagina 19 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Pagina 107 - a noi meridiana face di caritate, e giuso, intra i mortali, se' di speranza fontana vivace. Donna, se' tanto grande e tanto vali, che qual vuol grazia ed a te non ricorre, sua disianza vuol volar sanz'ali.
Pagina 164 - ... tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
Pagina 57 - The universal instinct of repose, The longing for confirmed tranquillity, Inward and outward ; humble, yet sublime : The life where hope and memory are as one ; Earth quiet and unchanged ; the human soul Consistent in self-rule ; and heaven revealed To meditation in that quietness...

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