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A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

Religion

A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

Quotations; Religious poetry

Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy
nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the
Lord.--Obadiah, 4.

Woe unto you Pharisees, for ye love the uppermost seats in the
synagogues, and greetings in the markets.--Luke, xi. 43.


    Twice told the period spent on stubborn Troy,
    Court favour, yet untaken, I besiege;
    _Ambition’s_ ill-judged efforts to be rich.
    Alas! _Ambition_ makes my little, less;
    Embittering the possessed: why wish for more?
    Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
                                          _Young._


    Woe to thee, wild _Ambition_! I employ
      Despair’s low notes thy dread effects to tell;
    Born in high heaven, her peace thou could’st destroy;
      And but for thee, there had not been a hell.

    Through the celestial domes thy clarion pealed;
      Angels, entranced, beneath thy banners ranged,
    And straight were fiends; hurled from the shrinking field,
      They waked in agony to wail the change.

    Darting through all her veins the subtle fire,
      The world’s fair mistress first inhaled thy breath;
    To lot of higher beings learned to aspire;
      Dared to attempt, and doomed the world to death.
                                        _Maria A. Brooks._


                      The sons of earth
    Who, vexed with vain disquietude, pursue
    _Ambition’s_ fatuous light through miry pools,
    That yawn for their destruction, stray, foredoomed,
    Amid delusive shadows to their end.
                                      _William Herbert._


    _Ambition_, when the pinnacle is gained
    With many a toilsome step, the power it sought
    Wants to support itself, and sighs to find
    The envied height but aggravates the fall.
                                    _George Bally._




                                ANGELS.


And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top
of it reached to Heaven: and behold the _angels_ of God ascending and
descending on it.--Genesis, xxviii. 12.

The _angel_ of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him, and
delivereth them.--Psalm xxxiv. 7.

For He shall give His _angels_ charge over thee, to keep thee in all
thy ways.

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against
a stone.--Psalm xci. 11, 12.

Then the devil leaveth Him, and behold, _angels_ came and ministered
unto Him.--Matthew, iv. 11.

Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and He shall
presently give me more than twelve legions of _angels_.--Matthew, xxvi.
53.

There is joy in the presence of the _angels_ of God over one sinner
that repenteth.--Luke, xv. 10.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, hereafter ye shall see Heaven open,
and the _angels_ of God ascending and descending upon the Son of
Man.--John, i. 51.

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