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... overlooks this fact . For as Augustine long ago asked , " How could the city of God either take a beginning or be developed or attain its destiny , if the life of the saints were not a social life ? " The New Testament is full of the ...
... overlooks this fact . For as Augustine long ago asked , " How could the city of God either take a beginning or be developed or attain its destiny , if the life of the saints were not a social life ? " The New Testament is full of the ...
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... overlook his constant reiteration of principles which must have social results . These principles are the chief elements in the Christian character . The first of these three has already been implied in what has been said concerning the ...
... overlook his constant reiteration of principles which must have social results . These principles are the chief elements in the Christian character . The first of these three has already been implied in what has been said concerning the ...
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... ques- tion , and we should be free from one growing habit -to overlook divorce and allow full social privileges to those divorced on unscriptural grounds . The gospel has higher ideals for the family than has the Divorce 45.
... ques- tion , and we should be free from one growing habit -to overlook divorce and allow full social privileges to those divorced on unscriptural grounds . The gospel has higher ideals for the family than has the Divorce 45.
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... overlook the fact that Jesus ' sympathy went out strongly to the poor . There was reason for this . All about him Jesus saw the thousands of men and women to whom life meant only a struggle for existence . Poverty among the people of ...
... overlook the fact that Jesus ' sympathy went out strongly to the poor . There was reason for this . All about him Jesus saw the thousands of men and women to whom life meant only a struggle for existence . Poverty among the people of ...
Page 108
... overlook duties in their struggle for rights . The relations of the two parties in the industrial struggle are con- stantly threatening to become more impersonal , and thus cause both labor and capital alike to come to disregard the ...
... overlook duties in their struggle for rights . The relations of the two parties in the industrial struggle are con- stantly threatening to become more impersonal , and thus cause both labor and capital alike to come to disregard the ...
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Page 88 - For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good : but me ye have not always.
Page 25 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength ;" and "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Page 18 - God (concerning which we are already writing no less than the nineteenth book of this work) either take a beginning or be developed, or attain its proper destiny, if the life of the saints were not a social life?
Page 165 - ... the kingdoms of this world become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and to His name shall be the glory forever.
Page 165 - This gospel was the ideal of popular hope and longing, an immense renovation and transformation of things : the kingdom of God. 'Jesus came into Galilee proclaiming the good news of God and saying : The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand ; repent and believe the good news.
Page 31 - Thy kingdom come and thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Jesus clearly intended that his disciples should interest themselves in the temporal and earthly aspects of the heavenly Father's dominion and power. They are to pray for the coming of his Kingdom, and the accomplishment of his will on earth, even as they pray for daily bread or for...
Page 122 - They have thus proved themselves to be the power of God unto salvation, to all those who believe in them, Rom.
Page 75 - ... man's life does not consist in the abundance of things which he possesses.
Page 5 - The main purpose of the studies is not to give technical instruction on the tremendous questions which confront us. but to define and stimulate the Christian attitude toward such questions.