...labour and toil •with all his might, without producing any thing of importance, for edification! But if he receive the aid of the Spirit, his text...shall then be preferred by the Man of God, to all the soaringflights of eloquence, and to all the splendid trappings and tinsel of human science. May it...

...talent and science, it is yet possible, by the grace of God, so to learn Christ, as with St. Paul, to count all- things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ. I believe I ought to apologize to you, my reverend Mother, for this long digression concerning M. de...

...talent and science, it is yet possible, by the grace of God, so to learn Christ, as with St. Paul, to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ. I believe I ought to apologize to you, my reverend Mother, for this long digression concerning M. de...

...so to show me my perishing condition, destitute of a Saviour, that I became in good earnest willing to " count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ." I no longer halted between the desire of saving my soul, and the fear of being thought singular. I...

...so to show me my periling condition, destitute of a Saviour, that I became in good earnest willing to " count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ." The vanities of time and sense faded in my view, and my heart unceasingly cried — " God be merciful...

...down to the present day. They have been ready to cry, with Thomas, " my Lord, and my God ;" with Paul, to " count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus ;" and with Stephen, full of the Holy Ghost, to cry, " Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." These persons...

...readiness to give up every thing which seems opposed to the complete sanctification of the soul ; — " to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ ;" and to lie, in all the abjectness of moral penury, at the foot of the Redeemer's cross, waiting...

...on learning the extent of the sacrifices which discipleship sometimes requires, you have been taught to " count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus ;" and that, rather than " go away" from such a Master, and renounce his service and his favour, you...

...the Divine attributes enforces ? Not assuredly, to make human science the great object of life; but to " count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ our Lord." To contemplate Him as the great and only Redeemer—to trust entirely in his mediation—to...

...talent at the foot of the cross. She had been much in the school of affliction, where she had learned to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ. This humble Christian felt an earnest desire to bring her youthful charge to the knowledge of her beloved...