| 1821 - 948 страници
...In order to dispose our heart to devotion, the active life is to be preferred to the contemplative. To be doing good to mankind, disposes the soul most powerfully to devotion ; and indeed we are surrounded with motives to piety and devotion, if we would but mind them : The... | |
| Thomas Wilson - 1847 - 324 страници
...In order to dispose our hearts to devotion, the active life is to be preferred to the contemplative. To be doing good to mankind, disposes the soul most powerfully to devotion. And indeed, we are surrounded with motives to piety and devotion, if we would but mind them. The poor... | |
| 1848 - 116 страници
...In order to dispose our hearts to devotion, the active life to be preferred to the contemplative. " To be doing good to mankind disposes the soul most powerfully to devotion. And, indeed, we are surrounded with motives to piety and devotion, if we would but mind them. " The... | |
| Thomas Wilson (bp. of Sodor and Man.) - 1849 - 158 страници
...In order to dispose our hearts to devotion, THE ACTIVE LIFE is to be preferred to the CONTEMPLATIVE. To be doing good to mankind, disposes the soul most powerfully to devotion. And indeed we are surrounded with motives to piety and devotion, if we would but mind them. The poor... | |
| Thomas Wilson - 1857 - 324 страници
...In order to dispose our hearts to devotion, the active life is to be preferred to the contemplative. To be doing good to mankind, disposes the soul most powerfully to devotion. And indeed, we are surrounded with motives to piety and devotion, if we would but mind them. The poor... | |
| Thomas Wilson - 1860 - 666 страници
...rule. In order to dispose our hearts to devotion, the active life to be preferred to the contemplative. To be doing good to mankind, disposes the soul most powerfully to devotion. B And indeed, we are surrounded with motives to piety and devotion, if we would but mind them. The... | |
| Thomas Wilson - 1860 - 686 страници
...rule. In order to dispose our hearts to devotion, the active life to be preferred to the contemplative. To be doing good to mankind, disposes the soul most powerfully to devotion. DEVOTION. And indeed, we are surrounded with motives to piety and devotion, if we would but mind them.... | |
| Richard William Church - 1885 - 160 страници
...In order to dispose our hearts to devotion, the active life is to be preferred to the contemplative. To be doing good to mankind disposes the soul most powerfully to devotion." And this religion, sober and understated as it is, flows from the love of the Crucified:— " O Jesus,... | |
| Richard William Church - 1885 - 160 страници
...In order to dispose our hearts to devotion, the active life is to be preferred to the contemplative. To be doing good to mankind disposes the soul most powerfully to devotion." And this religion, sober and understated as it is, flows from the love of the Crucified : — " O Jesus,... | |
| Robert L. Ottley - 1912 - 264 страници
...hearts to devotion," says Bishop Wilson, ' the active life is to be preferred to the contemplative. To be doing good to mankind disposes the soul most powerfully to devotion.' We may remember how the apostolic writer crowns his list of Christian graces, each forming a step to... | |
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