| 1853 - 244 pages
...Father feedeth them. Are not ye much better than they ? And why take ye thought for raiment ? Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin ; but I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore... | |
| 1853 - 604 pages
...of the air ; for they sow not neither do they reap ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Consider the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do they spin. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the... | |
| Mary Ide Torrey - 1853 - 336 pages
...shalt dwell in the land, and be fed ; " " Take no thought for the things of the morrow ; " " Consider the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do they spin ; and yet I say unto you, Solomon in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these ; " " Shall God... | |
| Mary Andrews Denison - 1853 - 440 pages
...fancied every one was laughing at me, and unfortunately the sermon was preached from this text: " Behold the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet I say unto you that Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these." I left the... | |
| Paul Giles - 1992 - 570 pages
...morality, and also a self-indulgent delight in aesthetics as "prior to and beyond utility ('Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin')." This latter "idea of sheer wastefulness," says McCarthy's persona, "is always shocking to non-Catholics":... | |
| Morris Raphael Cohen - 1993 - 310 pages
...therefore no thought for the morrow. . . . Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. . . . Consider the lilies of the field . . . they toil not, neither do they spin; yet ... even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Similar teachings are found... | |
| Penelope Van Toorn - 1995 - 282 pages
...blizzard and thinking of his own past avarice, recalls part of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: "Think of the lilies ... of the field. They toil not neither do they spin, yet your heavenly Father car. . . . ." (BMC 108). 14 The Biblical verse invites reflection on the extent... | |
| M. D. Goulder - 1995 - 216 pages
...eidier (look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap, nor gather into bams . . . Consider the lilies of the field: they toil not, neither do they spin). Work for die church, and keep die Law in die full form Jesus taught (seek first his kingdom and his... | |
| Philip J. Davis - 1997 - 316 pages
...theorem struck me still as a pretty one, but inconsequential, of no practical use to anyone. Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin. Well, Problem 44 was a mathematical lily. It was not the key to the atoms or the galaxies or biological... | |
| Julia S. Sears, Partana Vegan - 1996 - 40 pages
...brought to the race a new dispensation of non-resistance and cessation of effort. He said, "Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin"; and again, If a man smite thce on one cheek, turn to him the other also" ; he knew that "no man is... | |
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