 | Margaret Widdemer - 1922 - 296 pages
...these people. And I have found that the things the Bible's full of are facts, not picturesque phrases. The life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment. My people have needed what I cannot give them. Somebody else may. That's why I'm resigning.'' The ice-blue... | |
 | 1925 - 738 pages
...believe in them? Has he observed the marvelous laws which govern human nature? Has he discovered that the life is more than meat and the body more than raiment? Has he observed how profitless it is for a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Has he... | |
 | 1928 - 444 pages
...time the victims of a debauch of greed, gambling, or improvidence feel the 'fever of frenzied need. The life is more than meat and the body more than raiment. It is of minor importance who holds the wealth of the Nation if the hearts of all its people beat with... | |
 | Andrew F. Smith - 2000 - 408 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." HINTS FOR THE SICK ROOM. Always keep the room carefully ventilated, since pure air is a great restorative... | |
 | Alexander Roberts - 2007 - 641 pages
...no thought for your Hfe(i^u^), 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." " And He adds a plain example of instruction : " Consider the ravens : for they neither sow nor reap,... | |
 | 1918 - 722 pages
...need not cut prices. We need not sell at a sacrifice. There is no bargain counter for soul and body. "The life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment." The young man who thinks that the world owes him a living, that he must have it regardless of what... | |
 | 1899 - 770 pages
...an infidel. 1 Ti. 5. 8. — Casting all your care upon him ; for he careth for you. 1 Pe. S. 7. 23 is better for thee to enter into the kin 24 Consider the ravens : for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn ; and... | |
 | 1899 - 844 pages
...would want to have reai. ..ie poems of Homer if he were to spend his whole life in a coal-mine. Truly "the life is more than meat and the body more than raiment." That only is education which makes us large-mindeu, big-hearted, sympathetic with truth and man and... | |
 | 1894 - 630 pages
...animal is for the social and the social is for the spiritual ; or, again, in Christ's own words, that " the life is more than meat and the body more than raiment." Such are some, by no means all, of the universal prin ciples illustrated in Christ's first commission... | |
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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. 
