| Elizabeth Hamilton - Christian life - 1814 - 584 pages
...enjoyments, sinking into nothing when put into comparison with those that are eternal. " What does " it profit a man if he gains the " whole world, and loses his own «« soul;" or " what shall a man give " in exchange for his soul?" The love of praise, a more generous principle... | |
| 1824 - 706 pages
...fraud. The least alloy of guilt renders the most ample fortune but dust and ashes. " What advantage to a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?" Let not the motto of our Association, " Be just and fear not" become an idle and obsolete idea, suited... | |
| 1846 - 278 pages
...inquiry," said Miss Lynch ; " and you are right in excluding all worldly views, for ' what will it avail a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul ? ' We will see our hrothers in the evening. " ' But thou of foree mubi one religion own ; And only... | |
| Charlotte Mary Brame - 1867 - 282 pages
...of our fathers be your most precious and zealouslyguarded treasure ; ever remember, " What does it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul ? " VIII. THE BESETTING SIN. CHAPTER I. I DO not know a much sadder sight, or one more calculated to... | |
| Brownlow North - 1867 - 130 pages
...while then, to consider your latter end ? Jesus asks, " What will it profit a What will Your End Be ? man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?" and I ask you the same question, "What will it?" Suppose, by going on in your own way, you get all... | |
| L. U. Reavis - Saint Louis (Mo.) - 1870 - 156 pages
...problems of the world are to be solved, and man's highest life on earth attained. " What profit hatb a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul ?" The National Capital will be a poor achievement to the people of the great Valley States, unless... | |
| Brownlow North - Christian life - 1871 - 206 pages
...speaking too strongly to say, that one lost and the other gained the whole world ! But what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul ? Far, far be it from me to say that there is no difference -between the worshipper of pleasure and... | |
| Brownlow North - 1872 - 120 pages
...wise then and choose Christ ! that better part which shall never be taken from you. " What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" or if you had got the whole world in exchange for your soul, what, if you grew tired of your bargain,... | |
| 1869 - 468 pages
...of our fathers be your most precious an d zealously guarded treasure ; ever remember, " What docs it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul 1" THE SINGER'S ALMS. In Lyons, in the mart of that French town. Years since, a woman leading a fair... | |
| William Robinson Clark - 1878 - 222 pages
...God, Augustine answers that he must not love, but despise, the things of this world, for it will not profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul. To be detached from the world, to strive against his lusts and covetous desires, to repent of... | |
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