| Jean Lafrance - 1988 - 332 pages
...Holy Spirit, since he has invited us with insistence to desire him in prayer: "If you then, who are evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him" (Lk 11:13). In short, all Christian... | |
| Simon Tugwell - 1988 - 676 pages
...is our Father, he is willing to give us things. 7 5 As it says below (Matt. 7:11), "If you who are evil know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?" Thirdly, they serve to stimulate... | |
| Francis Fernandez - 2000 - 412 pages
...hand him a stone, or if he asks for a fish will hand him a serpent? Therefore if you, evil as you are, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him? We have every reason to approach... | |
| Roger Poudrier - 1993 - 116 pages
...do, say: "We are only ordinary servants. We have only done what we had to!" — If you — who are evil — know how to give good things to your children, how much more the Father in heaven will give the Holy Spirit (the "good thing" par excellence) to those who pray... | |
| Robert Davidson - 1998 - 500 pages
...when he invites his disciples to ask, to seek, and to knock, knowing that "If you, bad as you are, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him" (Luke 11:13). The "good things"... | |
| Thomas Keating - 2000 - 132 pages
...looked like snakes because they had the shape of eels. Jesus concludes: "If you with your limitations know how to give good things to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him" (Luke 11:11-13). There are two... | |
| Thomas Keating - 2000 - 152 pages
..."Dear child, you want a fish? Try this poisonous snake." Then Jesus said, "If you, evil as you are, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him." Do you think when we enter our... | |
| Arthur Stephen McGrade, John Kilcullen, Matthew Kempshall - 2001 - 682 pages
...and incompletely. And this seems to me to be the Savior's teaching in Matthew 7:11: 'If you who are evil know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the good Spirit to those who seek him?' - as if to say, 'If the gift... | |
| Pippa Atkin - 2001 - 138 pages
...when he asks for bread? Or would you give him a snake when he asks for a fish? Bad as you are, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more then, will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!' At that time Jesus went up... | |
| Kirk Kimball - 2002 - 702 pages
...would you give him a stone? lf he asks for fish, would you give him a snake?509 lf you, who are flawed, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Treat people the way you wish they... | |
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