 | Gardiner Spring - 1848 - 324 pages
...life," as long as it is best for us to live. " The Lord reigneth, and let the earth rejoice !" Ah ! " what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?" Give him all the world ; yet he must... | |
 | Erasmus Manford, Benjamin Franklin - 1848 - 388 pages
...the life, before we were through. This he has now done, and thus represents the Redeejner as saying what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his life? The soul, then, is nothing but the breath, as desiructionists would say. But if the soul is the... | |
 | Francis Vyvyan LUKE - 1848 - 732 pages
...miserable in the greatest worldly prosperity, because he may have gained it at the expense of his soul. For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose that.J These and many like passages clearly imply that the soul is immortal. And what an impression... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1849 - 562 pages
...Christ. If others neglect the Bible, or speak lightly of it, O, do not you ! Remember who has said, ' What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ? ' " I, find you have a desire, my little daughter, to attend the dancing-school ball, and... | |
 | Richard Sherlock - 1849 - 442 pages
...under the cope of Heaven, can equal such a soul in excellency and honour. Therefore said our Lord " What shall it profit a man to gain the whole ! world and lose his own j soul" J" implying the soul I that is sanctified by the Divine Presence, to exceed ia value the... | |
 | Richard Cobbold - 1850 - 272 pages
...to death as a ransom for many. Can, then, the poorest here set too high a value upon his soul? Oh, what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ? How precious are you, O ye poor souls, in the sight of God ! Oh, would to God you each knew... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...in the pursuit of those things, which are of no value in the sight of God. Wretche'd stupidity ! " What shall it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?" to lose all and gain nothing. Time bears no proportion to eternity. The most exalted pleasures... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1850 - 412 pages
...has already solved for himself that Divine problem, of universal and not particular application — ' What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ?' I must be permitted to linger upon the homely enforcement of this Truth — to multiply... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 932 pages
...everything, worldly distinction is not everything, while the joys of heaven are to be attained : ' What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?'•' But a shallow observer may say, " Does not live gist of your observations tend to'... | |
 | John Miley - 1850 - 694 pages
...it a monk who put this question to the universal family of Adam, Mr. Leigh Hunt not excepted ? — " What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?" From this it appears that a soul can be lost, and that its " loss" is more than the wreck and... | |
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What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 
