| Mangasar Mugurditch Mangasarian - 1911 - 280 頁
...willing to let the Lord do everything for them. The ideal of the oriental believer was to be " like the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin."* What need was there for the bible people to invent machinery, to build factories, or to acquire science,... | |
| Marie E. Hensley - 1916 - 302 頁
...God to give thee that which ye are not willing to earn? The Lord meant not this, He said, "Consider the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin, take ye no thought of the morrow, what ye shall eat, what ye shall drink, or what withal ye shall be... | |
| Alexandra Etheldred Grantham - 1918 - 308 頁
...kindly anarchy. That grows best which is left to grow freely according to the bent of its nature, like the lilies of the field which toil not, neither do they spin. To teach without speaking, to accomplish without willing, to know without watching, to possess without... | |
| Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1920 - 356 頁
...patting itself on the back on account of its feverish energy ? There are lessons to be learnt from the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin. For instance, Mr Pearsall Smith in slack, reflective mood can absorb beauty without wishing to put... | |
| Joseph Klausner - 1925 - 444 頁
...interest has he in labour, in culture, in economic or political achievements, who recommends us to be as "the lilies of the field which toil not neither do they spin" but whose apparel is more glorious than that of king Solomon, or like the ravens whose mother birds... | |
| Everett Dean Martin - 1926 - 344 頁
...mention of the blessedness of labor in the Beatitudes; the command to consider the birds of the air and the lilies of the field which toil not neither do they spin and yet are clothed and fed, reveals a spirit very remote from that of industry. Heaven is thought... | |
| 1927 - 838 頁
...haste have always marked the savage, as they mark your masses. Christ was tolerant, and He admired the lilies of the field 'which toil not, neither do they spin.' Consider carefully the Roman at your table. He illustrates the main epithet." "Pushing?" I hazarded... | |
| Owen Wister - 1928 - 384 頁
...haste have always marked the savage, as they mark your masses. Christ was tolerant, and He admired the lilies of the field 'which toil not, neither do they spin.' Consider carefully the Roman at your table. He illustrates the main epithet." ' ' Pushing ? " I hazarded... | |
| 1908 - 724 頁
...to " take no thought for the morrow " ; were to be " as little children." or (in another dictum) as the " lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin." * * * A Fundamental Difference Whereas the first step towards Christian perfection was renunciation,... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1900 - 376 頁
...period" must have been somewhat of an indoor plant. She does not appear, however, to have resembled the "lilies of the field," which "toil not, neither do they spin," for the family sewing had to be done, there was no "machine," and "Worth" was not born; and, in addition... | |
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