 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 608 páginas
...Were I to state the purpose of the parable, in fewest words, they would be those of our dear Lord, " What shall it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ? " Ask your own hearts, each for himself, here, in God's sight, this fearful question. Think... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 782 páginas
...business was devoted to charitable labors. After his death, this inscription was found in his pocket: " What shall it, profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul." No accurate statement can be made of all the sums which he bestowed on various objects.... | |
 | 1863 - 592 páginas
...can comprehend the full meaning of that awful question which He himself once asked when on earth, " What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his soul ?" — this soul, so wonderful in its powers of thought and emotion, and so deathless in its being.... | |
 | George James Cowley- Brown - 1863 - 538 páginas
...good could the opinion of the Pharisees do them "in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment?" "What shall it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?" Here too we may call to mind the Lord's previous expostulation with these, " How can ye... | |
 | Penny pulpit - 1864 - 160 páginas
...be found in Christ, better for me had I not been born, or born a worm to crawl in the dust ; " for what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul." And why should it be lost by any. Has Christ any pleasure in the death of him that dieth... | |
 | Horace Bushnell - 1866 - 338 páginas
...compass of our definite thought. Here they drive us out in the almost cold mathematical question, " What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul 2 " Here they shew us, in John's vision, Moses and Elijah, as angels, suggesting our future... | |
 | John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts - 1908 - 646 páginas
...and death; wherefore choose life." The same final standard of value appears in the question of Jesus, "What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own life?" When we inquire what life meant, so far as the early sources give us data for judgment,... | |
 | Otto Pfleiderer - 1909 - 596 páginas
...lose it ; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own life ? Or what shall a man give as a ransom for his life ? For whosoever shall be ashamed of me... | |
 | Caroline Hazard - 1910 - 232 páginas
...is the foundation of all society ; the development of the individual must be the aim of all study. " What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" It is one's own soul which must find its activity ; it is one's own soul which must come... | |
 | 1911 - 602 páginas
...is right." Instead of the idea that life is to be tested by what can be got out of it, we hear : " What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" "He that saveth his life shall lose it." Instead of the idea that the Christian is to expect... | |
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What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 
