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" Israel to rouse the people out of their selfcomplacency, to refresh their moral ideals, to remind them that the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment, and that to whom much is given of them shall much also be required. "
Education - Page 81
1900
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The harmony of the Evangelists, with a paraphrase, with dissertations by J ...

Jean Le Clerc - Bible - 1701 - 650 pages
...Take no thought for your life, what ye (ball eat -, neither lor the body, what ye fliall put on. 23 The life is more than meat, and the body « more than raiment. 24 Confider the ravens : for they neither fow nor reap ; which neither have ftorehoufe nor barn-, and...
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The Christian guardian (and Church of England magazine).

1851 - 592 pages
...moderate but cheerful spending, nothing teaches so effectually as the Gospel. Reminding the believer that the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment, it also suggests to him that meat and raiment are more than money ; and by saving him from the idolatry...
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The New Jerusalem Church Repository

New Jerusalem Church - 1818 - 556 pages
...whilst we were endeavouring to shun the error of the Church of Ephesus. All I mean to insist upon is, that the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment ; in other words, that the Will has the pre-eminence over the Understanding, the Affections over the...
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The Works of the Rev. Andrew Fuller, Volume 8

Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1825 - 536 pages
...having done the greater, he will do the less : f lit; has given us our lives, and our bodies ; and the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment :) that he provides for the fowls of the air, which, without anxiety, receive their food at his hand : and...
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The works of ... David M'Nicoll [ed.] by J. Dixon

David M'Nicoll - 1837 - 688 pages
...society, we have infinitely greater reason to rejoice and sing praise, than to murmur and complain. " The life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment." Man must be valued as to his nature and ultimate destination, rather than as marked by the superficial...
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The Independent magazine (ed. by J. Fletcher)., Volume 3

J. Fletcher - 1844 - 494 pages
...been spent ; while it has to enter upon a new term of existence for which it is utterly unprepared ! " The life is more than meat and the body more than raiment." One cause of the prevalence of this evil is that mental childishness is continued and frequently encouraged...
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The New Englander, Volume 13

Criticism - 1855 - 664 pages
...Father's blessing. They seem not so much as to know whether there be any heavenly Father. He taught that the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment. They seem scarcely to recognize the fact that man has an immortal soul. "To make tlie soul bondsman...
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The Rose of Sharon: A Religious Souvenir

Gift books - 1845 - 342 pages
...fluttering only about the most evanescent beauty, and sipping only the most tasteless sweets, to learn that " the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment." It is well for us all to believe that the " still small voice " once heard by the Prophet amid the...
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The Rose of Sharon, Volume 1845

Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - American poetry - 1845 - 340 pages
...fluttering only about the most evanescent beauty, and sipping only the most tasteless sweets, to learn that " the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment." It is well for us all to believe that the "still small voice" once heard by the Prophet amid the rocks...
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The Friends' Library, Volume 10

William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1846 - 496 pages
...dishonour on the precious cause of Truth, for I can say, without deception, this is what I long for — for the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment; may 58 I patiently endure the cross, and not call it grievous, but delight in baptisms, for they humble...
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