 | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun - 1863 - 312 pagina’s
...advice—which it has always appeared to me almost impossible to follow. I mean that which enjoins us to unite the wisdom of the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove. If you happen to possess the secret of amalgamating these two antagonistic qualities, you may circumvent... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1878 - 452 pagina’s
...it must be confessed that in some of his most innocent moods and acts, he in personal matters failed to unite the wisdom of the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove. But is it not often the case that men, who in the larger affairs of life act with consummate ability,... | |
 | Kenneth Moody- Stuart - 1879 - 320 pagina’s
...the too often unsuspecting simplicity of the children of light, whom their great Master has bidden unite the wisdom of the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove. Mr. North now returned to his home in Elgin, and on Tuesday, the Qth of August, a public meeting of... | |
 | Lewis Hughes - 1885 - 210 pagina’s
...come. NOTES. ( ls ) Wise as serpents, and harmless at doves.— Wise = "])TU&ent," full of precaution. To unite the wisdom of the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove is a difficult thing ; and yet wisdom without harmlessness is an awful gift ; it is the very character... | |
 | August Neander - 1885 - 586 pagina’s
...design. Christ did not expose his disciples to certain death among the wolves, but enjoined on them to unite the wisdom of the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove, in order to lessen the danger that threatened them from the wolves. He did not order them to sacrifice... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1889 - 822 pagina’s
...grace and power from the double beauty of blamelessness and knowledge. In all his efforts he should unite the wisdom of the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove. Amid the strife of tongues, or when the wolves of heresy were howling round him, he should keep his... | |
 | 1875 - 684 pagina’s
...ever kind, he must be a man of ready mind, sound judgment, and a most Christian disposition, he must unite the wisdom of the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove. I think a superintendent should not attempt to act on the children directly, but should reach them... | |
 | Robert Barr - 1903 - 422 pagina’s
...than his genius in war. His voice softened perceptibly as he continued: " We are enjoined by the Word to unite the wisdom of the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove. Your mission combines the two attributes, wisdom and harmlessness, for you are to beguile deceit, and... | |
 | Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky - 1928 - 662 pagina’s
...Scripture it is said: 'Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.'" J4 "Is it possible to unite the wisdom of the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove?" retorted Cesare. "Meseems we must choose one of the two. . . ." "Nay, both together!" answered Leonardo.... | |
 | 1832 - 326 pagina’s
...providential advantage lasts. Here indeed, as everywhere else, the Missionary is emphatically called to unite the wisdom of the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove ; but, enabled by the supply of the Spirit of Christ thus to live and to labour, though his faith and... | |
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must never lose sight of their Master's injunction, to unite the wisdom of the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove. Sound policy requires us to proceed with caution, and to assail, with a delicate and tender hand, deeply-rooted prejudices. 
