 | Life - 1879 - 168 oldal
...passionately fond of them; home duties and family ties are always to have the prior consideration ; for if we love not our brother whom we have seen, how can we love God whom we have not seen ? And that love is to be practical and generous. Nor is it well, in the impetuosity of the moment,... | |
 | John Jeffcott Dillon - 1885 - 448 oldal
...all the sons JD and daughters of the living God. As children we should love our heavenly Father ; but if we '' love not our brother whom we have seen, how can we love God whom we have not seen ?" Now see how many reasons there are for brotherly love to be implanted in the hearts of the faithful.... | |
 | John Knox Shaw - 1887 - 422 oldal
...measure of ability as God has given us). we are not possessors of the grace of God. St. John savs, "If we love not our brother whom we have seen, how can we love God whom we have not seen?" And St. James asks, "If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say... | |
 | George Frederick Pentecost - 1888 - 428 oldal
...fear and shame in the face of our fellowman, how can we look with confidence into the face of God ? " If we love not our brother, whom we have seen, how can we love God, whom we have not seen ? A morally reckless man can not be a prayerfully confident one. IV.— THE PEACE-OFFERINGS. The ceremonial... | |
 | Hiram Erastus Butler - 1888 - 216 oldal
...the dedication, we are convinced that God has a people who truly love him. "And if we love not oiir brother whom we have seen, how can we love God whom we have not seen." How can we say we love God and humanity; when there is such abundant provision ready for us and we... | |
 | 1888 - 400 oldal
...and to the neighbour. For our brother-men are sharers with us in this life, and if we love not them whom we have seen, how can we love God whom we have not seen. Hence, Jesus constantly taught this to be the way of eternal life. " If thou wouldst enter into life,... | |
 | 1889 - 400 oldal
...he it is that loveth me." Any act of obedience, of love to God or man — for if we love not our own brother whom we have seen, how can we love God whom we have not seen — will bring to us a new sense of His presence, and a new peace and strength into these lives which... | |
 | 1891 - 826 oldal
...were lacking in their love for man through experience of which God's love can be truly apprehended" "If we love not our brother whom we have seen, how can we love God whom we have not seen?" It is safe to say that love 'to man is love to God, and that love to God will be love to man, and proportionately... | |
 | William T. Wilson - 1892 - 408 oldal
...until we have known something of a human love ; for " how," asks St. John in a kind of astonishment, " if we love not our brother whom we have seen, how can we love God whom we have not seen?" Love is a living principle, and must pass, therefore, through successive processes of growth. The child... | |
 | Edward Augustus Horton - 1893 - 144 oldal
...truth is leading into all truth. Be courteous in the high sense to all men and situations, because if we love not our brother whom we have seen how can we love God truly whom we have not seen. QUESTIONS. WHAT are the chief facts in Emerson's life ? Why do we say... | |
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If we love not our brother whom we have seen, how can we love God, whom we have not seen... 
