Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. Therese of Lisieux: God's Gentle Warrior - Page 249by Thomas R. Nevin - 2006 - 416 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| John Donne, Henry Alford - English poetry - 1839 - 630 pages
...in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness, if we did ; for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current moneys,... | |
| John Donne - Sermons, English - 1839 - 628 pages
...in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness, if we did; for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current moneys,... | |
| John Donne - 1839 - 640 pages
...in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness, if we did ; for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current moneys,... | |
| John Donne - 1840 - 356 pages
...in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current money,... | |
| John Donne - Literary Criticism - 1959 - 252 pages
...in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current money,... | |
| Poetry - 1981 - 206 pages
...spiritual autobiography in miniature and redef1ne the meaning of affliction. 33 As John Donne declared, "affliction is a treasure, and scarce any Man hath enough of it." 34 The persona of these poems at last comes to see his own afflictions in a positive light, but the... | |
| John Donne - Diseases - 1987 - 260 pages
...taking upon us the Miserie of our Neighbours. Truly it 1 5 were an excusable covetousnesse if wee did ; for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any Man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a Man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge o(gold, and have none coined into currant Monies,... | |
| John Donne - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 324 pages
...in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current money,... | |
| Gary Almy, Carol Tharp Almy, Jerry B. Jenkins - Christian life - 1994 - 292 pages
...Paul's, and a preacher to great congregations in London. He wrote: "Affliction is a treasure and scarcely any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction...ripened by it and made fit for God by that affliction. Tribulation is a treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it except... | |
| John Donne - English poetry - 2000 - 532 pages
...in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current monies,... | |
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