 | 1896 - 568 pągines
...question in the direction of the unfailing light when He framed it in His words. ' 'Quid prodest ": "What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul ?" He understood the temptation ever increasing of each one of us to barter, when He asked : ' ' What... | |
 | Peter Gallwey - 1896 - 832 pągines
...sacrificed home and lands, and went to prison and to the scaffold, to keep the holy faith for us. IVhat doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? (St. Matt. xvi.). STATION VII. And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved... | |
 | John Kelly - 1897 - 390 pągines
...before them, or to bid them pause ere it be too late, and take God into counsel and ponder upon the old question, " What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul.'' The image of the creature shuts out the Creator ; the eyes of the man's mind are rivetted upon... | |
 | Pope Gregory I - 1950 - 292 pągines
...either aim at getting much, or are able to compass all they desired, let them hear what Scripture says: What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? 188 It is as if the Truth plainly said: "What does it profit a man if he gather together everything... | |
 | Sidney Z. Ehler, John B. Morrall - 1967 - 646 pągines
...obtain by means of a society material well-being, if he endangers his soul for lack of spiritual food? What doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?1 This, as Our Lord teaches, is the mark or character that distinguishes the Christian from the... | |
 | Jeff Jordan - 1994 - 180 pągines
...With the coming of Christianity the argument takes on a greater cogency. Christ himself had said, "For what doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul?" For Christians this loss of their own soul was no mere metaphor signifying a loss of self-respect or... | |
 | Michael F. Steltenkamp - 1997 - 244 pągines
...something about the church. One of his favorite subjects was on the words "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?" [Matt. 16:26]. That's one of the things I'll always remember about him teaching during those... | |
 | Jacques Bénigne Bossuet - 1999 - 500 pągines
...There is nothing above these expressions, above the simplicity of these two words of the Son of God: "What doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul?"28 And again, to strike down false glory with a single word: "They have received their reward."29... | |
 | Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori - 1999 - 474 pągines
...that the thought of the vanity of the world came home to him with startling clarity. The gospel words "what doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul" (Mt. 16:26) seemed to resound in his ears. His hesitations were at an end. There still remained... | |
 | William L. Roth, Timothy Parsons-Heather - 1999 - 708 pągines
...the fulfillment which God intended from the foundation of the Earth. "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul?" Our Lady is appearing throughout the world, trying to show Love as the only alternative for human deliverance.... | |
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