 | 1845 - 572 pagina’s
...addition to that increasing class of fictions, which teach how ' The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask — Room to deny ourselves — a road To bring us daily nearer God.' * The Birthday' is equal, probably, in intention, but certainly inferior in execution, to the... | |
 | 1882 - 662 pagina’s
...tempted in his own ways, and in his own occupations ; that The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us daily nearer God. These offices in which he accuses himself -of occasional distraction were ordinarily Thomas's... | |
 | Edward Vansittart Neale - 1845 - 496 pagina’s
...modern poet, that We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell ; Nor strive to wind ourselves too high, For sinful man beneath the sky ; ' — the same feeling has manifested itself in another form. We find amongst them a tendency to protest against... | |
 | James Martineau - 1846 - 538 pagina’s
...neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : H The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish...deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. 15 Seek we no more ; content with these, Let present rapture, comfort, ease, As heaven shall bid... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams, Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1846 - 706 pagina’s
...neighbor and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : 4 The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish...deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. 415. 7s. & 6s. M. COWTXR. Joy and Peace in Believing. 1 SOMETIMES a light surprises The Christian... | |
 | 1864 - 726 pagina’s
...Clara? — ' 'tt'e need not bid, for cloister" d cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath...The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish nil we ought to ask,— Eoom to deny ourselves, — a road To bring us daily nearer God." The heart... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1851 - 816 pagina’s
...cheerful performance of these that God is most glorified. " The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask ; \ Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us nearer unto God." emotions are in reality nothing more than instincts ; and not having the glory of... | |
 | Simple family prayers - 1847 - 168 pagina’s
...gleam of love and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care. The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Only, O Lord, in Thy dear love Fit us for perfect rest above, And help us this, and every day,... | |
 | 1852 - 798 pagina’s
...cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful men beneath the sky. The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask, Boom to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God." We may, by the way, remark upon the... | |
 | 1847 - 412 pagina’s
...of life wherein God has placed us, and to remember that " The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us, daily, near to God." The life of Bede was happy, because it was (pent entirely in the service of God ; and... | |
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The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. 
