The Courage to be ChasteIn this writing, Groeschel draws on his wide experience as a psychologist and cure of souls and offers a practical guide to those Christians seeking to lead a chaste single life. |
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Page 84 - The angels keep their ancient places; Turn but a stone and start a wing! Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces. That miss the many-splendoured thing.
Page 98 - Lord, truly I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid : Thou hast loosed my bonds.
Page 84 - O world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, O world unknowable, we know thee, Inapprehensible, we clutch thee ! Does the fish soar to find the ocean, The eagle plunge to find the air — That we ask of the stars in motion If they have rumour of thee there? Not where the wheeling systems darken, And our benumbed conceiving soars! — The drift of pinions, would we hearken, Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors. The angels keep their ancient places ; — Turn but a stone, and...
Page 84 - tis your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing. But (when so sad thou canst not sadder) Cry; — and upon thy so sore loss Shall shine the traffic of Jacob's ladder Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross. Yea, in the night, my Soul, my daughter, Cry, — clinging Heaven by the hems; And lo, Christ walking on the water Not of Gennesareth, but Thames!
Page 93 - Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers
Page 75 - Take it and read, take it and read." At this I looked up, thinking hard whether there was any kind of game in which children used to chant words like these, but I could not remember ever hearing them before. I stemmed my flood of tears and stood up, telling myself that this could only be a divine command to open my book of Scripture and read the first passage on which my eyes should fall.
Page 54 - Late have I loved Thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new; late have I loved Thee! For behold Thou wert within me, and I outside; and I sought Thee outside and in my unloveliness fell upon those lovely things that Thou hast made. Thou wert with me and I was not with Thee.
Page 75 - And Thou, O Lord, how long? how long, Lord, wilt Thou be angry, for ever? Remember not our former iniquities, for I felt that I was held by them. I sent up these sorrowful words; How long? how long, "to-morrow, and to-morrow?