purely earthly, deeply earthly, blissfully earthly" feeling is no longer an illustration of the Biblical dictum that there is more joy in heaven over one repentant sinner than over ninety-nine just men... Recollections of a Chaperon - Page 313by Arabella Jane Sullivan - 1833Full view - About this book
| 1824 - 828 pages
...the deliverance of those who are tormented. Now, .1 must beg you to recollect the saying of our Lord, that " there is more joy in heaven over one repentant sinner, than over niuety-nine just persons." I know that an attempt has been made to make our Lord say, that there is... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 400 pages
...and though, by the unbending rules of society, such a person may be held an outcast on earth, we know that there is more joy in heaven over one repentant sinner, than over ninety and nine of those, whose unswerving, and perhaps untempted virtue, has held on its way victorious and rejoicing.... | |
| Russell Streeter - 1832 - 116 pages
...justice, all they had to do, was, to repent and believe, and all heaven was theirs.' That there was more joy in heaven over one repentant sinner than over ninety and nine just persons, who needed no repentance. Having silenced the lips of justice by satisfying its demands, you... | |
| Arabella Jane Sullivan, Barbarina Brand (baroness Dacre) - 1833 - 1028 pages
...been early taught to read TCW Bible, and you have there learned that there i* more joy in Heaven orer one repentant sinner, than over ninety and nine just men who need no repentance. Ob, blessed words ! How many thousand thousand times have I r^J. and re-read ye ! Ye alone have preserred... | |
| Evariste Régis Huc - 1857 - 444 pages
...lost sheep, since, according to the gospel, there is more rejoicing there over one sinner who repents, than over ninety and nine just men who need no repentance. Oh! what happy days are ours if it should be permitted us to furnish to the celestial courts such a subject... | |
| Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) - 1881 - 182 pages
...could enjoy this blessedness in me, and for my sake. We can see well, therefore, why there should be more joy in heaven over one repentant sinner than over ninety and nine just that need no repentance. And, if my tears make the delight of angels, what shall be my own delight... | |
| Mary Jean H. Kernahan - 1885 - 320 pages
...settled my business." " Anything else ? " " I don't think so." He was feeling the truth of the saying that there is more joy in heaven over one repentant sinner than over ninety-nine that need no repentance ; for Kizzy, to David's mind, had never gone astray, while Jubal... | |
| 1885 - 184 pages
...trouble, and do not get into scrapes. And a reformed convict is a source of joy to the warden^ just as there is more joy in heaven over one repentant sinner than over the ninety and nine who never went astray. So much for the disciplinary organization". I should like... | |
| 1836 - 328 pages
...and though, by the unbending rules of society, such a person may be held an outcast on earth, we know that there is more joy in heaven over one repentant sinner, than over ninety and nine of those whose unswerving, and perhaps JOHNSON — SHERIDAN. untempted virtue, has held on its way... | |
| Newell Dwight Hillis - 1899 - 402 pages
...when you are ill in body, and the chain gang. " "A place of sorrow indeed," mused the bishop; "but there is more joy in heaven over one repent.ant sinner than over the white robes of 'ninety and nine just men. Ah! sir, if you\ leave the prison with thoughts of hatred... | |
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