| Friedrich Arndt - 1861 - 454 pages
...rich young man, " Why callest thou me good ? none is good save one, that is God ; " or telling man not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think. He was ever unassuming and forgetful of self. His whole being was enveloped in humility. Even on the... | |
| Thomas Goodwin - 1865 - 572 pages
...appoints and brings home to all the officers of the church in particular, is, as we translate it, ' Not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man a measure of faith ;' which of all rules... | |
| Thomas Goodwin - 1865 - 562 pages
...appoints and brings home to all the officers of the church in particular, is, as we translate it, ' Not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think soberly, according as •God hath dealt to every man a measure of faith ;' which of all... | |
| Devout thoughts - 1867 - 576 pages
...to it in almost every page of the Gospel. ' I say to every man that is among you,' said St. Paul, ' not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think soberly. Mind not high things : be not wise in your own conceits, but condescend to men... | |
| What - 1870 - 158 pages
...find St. Paul saying, "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think ; but to think soberly, as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith" (Rom. xii. 3). It is then... | |
| Richard William Church - 1878 - 252 pages
...the wise and high self-rule without which society becomes full of corruption and tormenting misery. 'Not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think ; ' ' Abhor what is evil, cleave to what is good;' 'Not slothful in business;' 'Rejoice with those... | |
| 1902 - 730 pages
...dollars respectively. In this table Texas ranks thirty-fifth (35th). The Apostle Paul said: "A man ought not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but think soberly," etc. We should heed him. There is wisdom in the oft-repeated sentence : "Our greatest... | |
| William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...anti-Mugwump, that a Jesuit minister, translating the New Testament, and being at a loss for a rendering of " t, let it rest like a delicate flower. The referred to an Indian convert. •' Oh, promptly returned the Indian, *' that's Mugquomp." The term... | |
| William John Deane - 1893 - 628 pages
...— Low estimate of self. A genuine Christian will take a modest estimate of himself. " He has learnt not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think." Many Christians undervalue themselves ; and though this practice is not so obnoxious in the eyes of... | |
| Joseph Parker - 1895 - 472 pages
...authority and proceeds — " For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think ; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." The English... | |
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