Miss Weare attended on Lady Dellwyn as her shadow. And as she had before received a great deal of flattery at second hand, so she ...now received a great deal of contempt in the same manner, with this material difference, that the flattery which came to her share ... lost much of its respectful manner by the way, whereas [the] contempt fell with redoubled force on her ... insomuch that Miss Weare often repined and secretly wished that she had rather submitted to the meanest employment ... than taken up the trade of being an humble companion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Formerly they had a heaven adorned with a vast wealth of thoughts and imagery. The meaning of all that is, hung on the thread of l...ight by which it was linked to that heaven. Instead of dwelling in this world's presence, men looked beyond it, following this thread to an other-worldly presence, so to speak. The eye of the Spirit had to be forcibly turned and held fast to the things of this world; and it has taken a long time before the lucidity which only heavenly things used to have could penetrate the dullness and confusion in which the sense of worldly things was enveloped, and so make attention to the here and now as such, attention to what has been called 'experience', an interesting and valid enterprise. Now we seem to need just the opposite; sense is so fast rooted in earthly things that it requires just as much force to raise it. The Spirit shows itself as so impoverished that, like a wanderer in the desert craving for a mere mouthful of water, it seems to crave for its refreshment only the bare feeling of the divine in general. By the little which now satisfies Spirit, we can measure the extent of its loss.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that ...all should stand in awe before him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you ...say, "I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me," you may indeed set over you a king whom the LORD your God will choose. One of your own community you may set as king over you; you are not permitted to put a foreigner over you, who is not of your own community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free ...at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so... are the sons of men snared in an evil time,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »