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As for Me and My House. As For Me and My House is a novel by Canadian author Sinclair Ross, first published in 1941 by the American company Reynal and Hitchcock, with little fanfare. Its 1957 Canadian re-issue, by McClelland & Stewart, as part of their New Canadian Library line, began its canonization, mostly in university classrooms.
Nonconformity to the world. Nonconformity to the world, also called separation from the world, is a Christian doctrine based on Romans 12:2, [1] [2] 2 Corinthians 6:17 [3] and other verses of the New Testament that became important among different Protestant groups, especially among Wesleyans and Anabaptists. The corresponding German word used ...
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn. " The World Is Too Much with Us " is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it, Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature. Composed circa 1802, the poem was first published in Poems, in ...
The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders (also known as the House on the Rock ), is a parable of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew ( 7:24–27) as well as in the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke ( 6:46–49 ). The parable illustrates the importance of building one's life on obedience to the teachings ...
The Synoptic Gospels attribute the following quote to Jesus: "Whoever is not with Me is against Me, and whoever does not gather with Me scatters" (Matthew 12:30), as well as the converse statement, "Whoever is not against us is for us" (Luke 9:50; Mark 9:40).
"Luce" for me was a magical piece, it was one of the most important songs I had written, it marked a strong change in my writing. What I had done before was very metaphorical, I didn't speak so directly about my own things, it was a song of great emotional commitment and in addition to writing it in English, I had tried, and succeeded, to open ...
The daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, that is, the Church against the Synagogue, which according to the flesh, brought forth Christ the spouse of the Church. They are severed by the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And a man’s foes are they of his household, those, that is, with whom he before lived as intimates."
My lords, the law of nature moves me to sorrow for my sister; the burden that is fallen upon me makes me amazed, and yet, considering I am God's creature, ordained to obey His appointment, I will thereto yield, desiring from the bottom of my heart that I may have assistance of His grace to be the minister of His heavenly will in this office now ...