 | Azubah Clark - 1830 - 244 pages
...myself, under the most specious disguise, and help me to mortify sin in every member, though it may be like plucking out a right eye, or cutting off a right hand I " Thy Gospel is heavenly and divine; let me be a partaker of its divine nature; let the work... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Christian life - 1836 - 204 pages
...winds apparently adverse, and never veering from its true course, unless compelled by uncontrollable necessity, — so is the Christian required steadily...displeasure, instead of his benediction, by acknowledging the Savior and walking in the paths of piety, it must be done. "Whosoever," saith Christ, "loveth father... | |
 | James Grierson - Lord's Supper - 1839 - 288 pages
...exercise a holy violence in resisting, renouncing, and subduing our besetting sins, although this should be like plucking out a right eye, or cutting off a right hand. He requires us, in short, to be " dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - Literary Criticism - 1840 - 286 pages
...brother, for God, to give up everything for God, which should come between her and him, though it should be like plucking out a right eye or cutting off" a right hand ? Must she not now choose between God and man, between religion and love ? She must. I mean not... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1841 - 564 pages
...brother, for God, to give up everything for God, which should come between her and him, though it should be like plucking out a right eye or cutting off a right hand ? Must she not now choose between God and man, between religion and love ? She must " I mean not... | |
 | Wesleyan Reform Union of Churches - 1874 - 432 pages
...recover his position as a Christian, he knows he must give up some worldly advantages, and this would be like plucking out " a right eye," or cutting off " a right hand." He is a man of pleasing manners, and courteous in conversation, and consequently has an amount... | |
 | Ebenezer Coloham Brewer - English language - 1878 - 476 pages
...original. " grown with our growth, and strengthened with our strength," that to abandon them would be like " plucking out a right eye," or " cutting off a right arm." SIMILES. — The scion of one tree, grafted into the stock of another, changes the nature of its fruit.... | |
 | Place, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Sermons - 1879 - 376 pages
...willingly give it a moment's quarter, — though we do our honest best to be rid of it, should the effort be like plucking out a right eye or cutting off a right hand, — yet in a little, unless we carefully and constantly see to it, the old enemy that seemed... | |
 | John Reid - Christian life - 1880 - 344 pages
...tribe." We are not bound by any unnatural custom like that. We must simply do our duty though it seems like plucking out a right eye, or cutting off a right arm. If we can fasten the soul to a final purpose to go straight forward in the path of goodness, whatever... | |
 | Theodore Ledyard Cuyler - Church group work - 1893 - 140 pages
...evil practice must be abandoned. If it be some sin, cherished in the heart, then he must yield, even if it be like plucking out a right eye or cutting off a right hand. In most cases the chief hindrance lies in a wicked, stubborn heart. It has always been my aim... | |
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God, which should come between her and him, though it should be like plucking out a right eye or cutting off" a right hand ? Must she not now choose between God and man, between religion and love ? She must. I mean not to say that this was sound reasoning... 
