 | Elizabeth Hamilton - Christian life - 1814 - 584 pages
...temporary enjoyments, sinking into nothing when put into comparison with those that are eternal. " What does " it profit a man if he gains the " whole world, and loses his own «« soul;" or " what shall a man give " in exchange for his soul?" The love of praise,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Brame - 1867 - 282 pages
...Let the faith of our fathers be your most precious and zealouslyguarded treasure ; ever remember, " What does it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul ? " VIII. THE BESETTING SIN. CHAPTER I. I DO not know a much sadder sight, or one... | |
 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1891 - 570 pages
...be satisfied to hand down your farm to your posterity no better than you took it from your father. What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and bands down a farm to the children that they flee from. We should labor to build up and make farms that... | |
 | Medicine - 1893 - 804 pages
...yet more money, that he may still get more. Such a father should recall to his mind the text: "For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses the satisfaction of having about him healthy, happy, merry children." Children are born honest... | |
 | William Frost Crispin - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1888 - 356 pages
...truth, honor, right, conscience, for the silver, grow on this soil. Defaulters are made in this way. But what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and in doing it, loses his good name, reputation, honor, character, aye, his own soul — the noble self... | |
 | Medicine - 1893 - 822 pages
...yet more money, that he may still get more. Such a father should recall to his mind the text: "For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses the satisfaction of having about him healthy, happy, merry children." Children are born honest... | |
 | 1904 - 402 pages
...material; shut your eyes, your ears, your mind to all, and keep to the purpose you have set forth upon. For "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? " The great teacher became master of self, and being master of self, he was master... | |
 | 1911 - 1038 pages
...90,000,000 people. He quotes from *Fisher— Memorial on the Conservation of Human Life. the Bible — "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and lose his own soul?'' It is plain that material wealth is worth absolutely nothing without health. Now,... | |
 | Knut Seehuus - Church year sermons - 1914 - 454 pages
...and sing hymns of praise to the glory of his name. What would all other blessings be without this? What does it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and lose his soul? This blessed gospel we have received as an inheritance from our Christian forefathers.... | |
 | Agriculture, Cooperative - 1966 - 128 pages
...also been used. Do they cost us money? Yes! We believe, though, this quotation can be applied to us: "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?" In 1955, by an overwhelming vote, the Arkansas General Assembly passed legislation... | |
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For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? 
