 | Saint Clement (of Alexandria) - 1867 - 484 pages
...thought for your life (^v^fj), what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on ; for the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment." 3 And He adds a plain example of instruction : " Consider the ravens : for they neither sow nor reap,... | |
 | 1868 - 1048 pages
...is not right to live so. Are we not taught to take no anxious thought for things of this world, that the life is more than meat and the body more than raiment ? I am not thinking of myself alone, there are thousands situated like me, who long to do something... | |
 | Robert Ainslie Redford - 1869 - 308 pages
...of human hopes. Oh ! let us feel ourselves dependent on a wise and holy God. Let us believe that " the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment." The time will come when the meat will no longer nourish life, when the body will no longer call for... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1872 - 830 pages
...experiences are not final ends, but means. We are preparing here for our nobler destiny, and therefore the life is more than meat and the body more than raiment. We are not sent into this world merely to pass our time in a monotonous round of exertion and enjoyment.... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1872 - 274 pages
...experiences are not final ends, but means. We are preparing here for our nobler destiny, and therefore the life is more than meat and the body more than raiment. We are not sent into this world merely to pass our time in a monotonous round of exertion and enjoyment.... | |
 | 1875 - 780 pages
...conscientious housekeepers with little taste for mental pursuits, are apt to make great blunders. " The life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment," which means that you yourself, with all your immortal faculties, are of vastly more importance than... | |
 | 1876 - 242 pages
...Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat ; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23. The life is more than meat, and the body •' •• more than raiment. 24. Consider the ravens : for they neither sow nor reap ; which neither have storehouse nor barn ;... | |
 | 1877 - 478 pages
...figures of the carpet, and repeats in her slow-measured way, "After all, whether we save or spend, the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment." • Minutea to the pound. f Mimon noup. Ttie Lime gtvuD U the general average ; the lime will varj... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 430 pages
...But when we come to inquire what is meant by humanity, we find it is the body of man. It may be that the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment. The law admits that, but only that. It stops there. . . . For this law puts forth its hand, and lays... | |
 | 1900 - 708 pages
...influence of good models and quiet suggestions. The teacher of composition should never forget that "the life is more than meat and the body more than raiment"; that the spirit and thought of any exercise are more than the technical dress ; and that if the former... | |
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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. 
