| William Lucas - 1805 - 222 Seiten
...a&knowledge all to be the working of your Maker. Did I not tell you, that all was in his bounty; •' Yea, every good, and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of Light.' Be joyful then, and wait your appointed time; when you will fall, like the full fruit of Autumn, which... | |
| John Chadwick (M.D.) - 1870 - 160 Seiten
...Founder of our Church is " the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world; and that every good and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of Light." We also know that most tribes of mankind have some notion of God, and of a future state of existence,... | |
| Seth Pancoast - 1877 - 334 Seiten
...God of Nature, manifesting Himself first in Light and in and through and by Light in the Universe. " Every good and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of Light !" Well, indeed may James call God "the Father of Light" when he ascribes to Him the bestowal of "... | |
| 1878 - 298 Seiten
...speak, but the Spirit of your Father, which speaketh in you. — Jesus Christ; Israelite. New Testament. EVERY good and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of Light. — James; Israelite. New Testament. ALL writing comes by the grace of God ; and all doing and having.... | |
| Rebecca Nicholson Taylor - 1915 - 48 Seiten
...then this blessing came to me Who once was blind, that now I see. This is my blind soul's history. For every good and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of Light, with whom i* no variableness, neither shadow of turning.— JAMES 1:17. THANKS for each perfect gift... | |
| 1925 - 350 Seiten
...beautiful and good in itself was to her a gift of God. She loved to quote a remark of St. James — " Every good and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of light." But besides this general conception of all her work being in a sense spiritual work, she spent an enormous... | |
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