 | Sura College of Competition - 2004 - 116 Seiten
...It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. - Ashleigh Brilliant Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carried the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour - Bacon It is foolish to... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 716 Seiten
...made. Its original meaning is to "come before." JOHN BROWN Vs. 6. In my distress. If you listen even to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Spirit hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities... | |
 | Elliott M. Simon - 2007 - 622 Seiten
...prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carries the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor." "Essay V: Of Adversity,"... | |
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Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. 
