 | Jean-Baptiste Massillon - 1818 - 518 páginas
...exalt ourselves to frivolous dignities here below, or to worldly grandeur : Alas ! whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity : It is in order to be placed in the heavens above, at the side of Jesus Christ ; it is in order to separate... | |
 | Jean-Baptiste Massillon - 1845 - 608 páginas
...exalt ourselves to frivolous dignities here below, or to worldly grandeurs: alas ! whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity : it is in order to be placed in the heavens above, at the side of Jesus Christ ; it is in order to separate... | |
 | Holy meditations, B E B - 1867 - 370 páginas
...ourselves to frivolous dignities here below, or to worldly grandeurs : alas ! whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity. •It is in order to be placed in the heavens above, at the side of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is in order to... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 páginas
...highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved. Wilkelm ion llumooldt. Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity. Massillon. Make use of time, if thou vainest eternity. Yesterday cannot be recalled ; to-morrow cannot... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 518 páginas
...Massillon's writings. THE USE OF TIME. (From Selections from the Works of Jean Baptiste Massillon.) The cause of all the evils, which reign amongst men,...place us by Jesus Christ, in the highest heavens. . . . There is not a day, an hour, a moment, which, put to profitable use, might not gain us heaven!... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 520 páginas
...from obscurity to places and dignities, or to secure himself against the reverses of fortune. Tune is this precious treasure we have inherited from our...place us by Jesus Christ, in the highest heavens. . . . There is not a day, an hour, a moment, which, put to profitable use, might not gain us heaven... | |
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It is a treasure that we would retain eternally, and yet can hardly endure it on our hands. We should look upon a man as deranged, who in succeeding to an immense inheritance, dissipated it carelessly, making no other use of it, either to raise himself... 