He that hath the faith, loveth God.—"My father loveth yow, becaus ye luif me, and beleve that I came of God."
— from The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6) by John Knox

Both are worthy of her; both are sprung from a noble, valiant, and faithful lineage; young but yet who show by their mien [ lit.
— from The Cid by Pierre Corneille

When you are master of Heron Dyke--if you ever do become its master--is it your intention to make ducks and drakes of the old property, as you have made ducks and drakes of the fortune left you by your father?"
— from The Mysteries of Heron Dyke: A Novel of Incident. Volume 1 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

If this wild and reckless mode of life has such fascinations for you, that it has induced you to dissipate the fortune left you by your father, to apply to me more than once to extricate you from your difficulties, to involve you deeply with the money-lenders, and to bring you at length to contemplate I know not what as a mode of escape from your troubles, what sort of hold will it have over you when you come into the uncontrolled possession of six thousand a year?
— from The Mysteries of Heron Dyke: A Novel of Incident. Volume 1 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

Serves you right for leaving your bed yesterday.
— from The Red Acorn by John McElroy

What says Christ? 'My Father loveth you, because ye loved me' (John 16:27).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

“And I,” said Mr. Gray, “though I were to be brought to the gallows for it, protest, that this course may be the murder of my patient.—Can bail not be taken, Mr. Lawford?” “Not in cases of high treason,” said the official person; and then continued in a confidential tone, “Come, Mr. Gray, we all know you to be a person well affected to our Royal Sovereign King George and the Government; but you must not push this too far, lest you bring yourself into trouble, which every body in Middlemas would be sorry for.
— from The Surgeon's Daughter by Walter Scott

“Do you suppose that when you asked me to pin your flowers into your evening gown—when you let me come into your bedroom when Victor was out while you did your hair—when you pretended to be a baby and let me feed you with grapes—when you have run to me and searched in all my pockets for a cigarette—knowing perfectly well where they were kept—going through every pocket just the same—I knowing too—I keeping up the farce—do you suppose that now you have finally lighted your bonfire you are going to find it a peaceful and pleasant thing—you are going to prevent the whole house from burning?”
— from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield

We denuded those, and found less year by year as time went on.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

The Great World is no place for an old fellow like you, because you don't know how to take care of yourself."
— from The Adventures of Grandfather Frog by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess