 | George Washington Light - 1847 - 398 pages
...the World, and Immortality? He may have drilled into his ears, day after day, the great truth that " the life is more than meat, and the body more than...so long as his own food and raiment are scanty and wretched, his mind will be engrossed by a round of petty and sordid cares. (I speak here of the general... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1848 - 670 pages
...continued, that which is best is preserved to us. Life is better than the outward comforts of life. " For the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment. But the favour of God is better than life." If then a man were stript of all his enjoyments, health, wealth,... | |
 | 1848 - 606 pages
...assigned them. These being of a temporal kind, are subordinate to those which are spiritual, even as the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment. And yet it is an honourable office ; for it is to be servants to the servants of Christ — to do good... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1852 - 393 pages
...moderate but cheerful spending, nothing teaches so effectually as the gospel. Reminding the believer that the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment, it also suggests to him that meat and raiment are more than money ; and by saving him from the idolatry... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1853 - 400 pages
...moderate but cheerful spending, nothing teaches so effectually as the gospel. Eeminding the believer that the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment, it also suggests to him that meat and raiment are more than money ; and by saving him from the idolatry... | |
 | 1855 - 870 pages
...then become to you more than your sweetest enjoyments of comfort, or of joy and peace in believing ! " The life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment." Once brought by the ministry of the holy Comforter fully to apprehend the glory of Christ's personal... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1892 - 782 pages
...usage?, but, we should not sacrifice oureelves upon the altar ol fashion, nor fail to remember thai the "Life is more than meat and the body more than raiment." Especially should we bear this principle in mind that we, ounilven, are of more value to our homes... | |
 | 1866 - 882 pages
...indifferent, prodigal, or extravagant, but be careful of world-loving and world-seeking. Do not forget that the life is more than meat and the body more than raiment, and that ye can not yield yourselves servants to both God and mammon, for you will love the one and... | |
 | Thomas Chalkley - 1866 - 986 pages
...about our living in this world, ie, about our eating, drinking, and clothing, and tells us, " That the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment ; " by which he shows us, that he who gave the life, will, by his providence, support it : and as he... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1866 - 606 pages
...life that requires to be nourished, and a body that requires to be clothed ; bat in this respect also the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment. What is this life and the meat by which it is supported ? this body and the raiment by which it is... | |
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Israel to rouse the people out of their selfcomplacency, to refresh their moral ideals, to remind them that the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment, and that to whom much is given of them shall much also be required. 
