 | Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1861 - 584 pages
...faculties, be comprehended or conceived. A Deity understood, would be no Deity at all ; and it is blasphemy to say that God only is as we are able to think Him...inconceivable. Faith, — Belief, — - is the organ \>j which w« apprehend what is beyond our knowledge. In this all Divines and Philosophers, worthy... | |
 | Theology - 1861 - 924 pages
...out of all necessary relation — the opposite of the necessarily relative. VOL. XVIII. No. 69. 11 know God according to the finitude of our faculties...believe much that we are incompetent properly to know." (Lectures, p. 531). A God understood would be no God. He can be known only so far as he reveals himself... | |
 | 1861 - 922 pages
...faculties, be comprehended or conceived. A Deity understood, would be no Deity at all ; and it is blasphemy to say that God only is as we are able to think him to be. We i It should be remarked that Hamilton carefully distinguishes, as those with whom he contends do not,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 pages
...comprehended or conceived. A deity understood would be no deity at all ; and it is blasphemy to eay that God only is as we are able to think him to bo. We know God according to the flnitude of our faculties ; the infinite God in, to nee the words... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1862 - 584 pages
...faculties, be comprehended or conceived. A Deity understood, would be no Deity at all ; and it is blasphemy to say that God only is as we are able to think Him...infinite God, is what, to use the words of Pascal, is infinitelyinconceivable. Faith, — Belief, — is the organ by which we apprehend what is beyond our... | |
 | Theology - 1861 - 928 pages
...faculties, be comprehended or conceived. A Deity understood, would be no Deity at all ; and it is blasphemy to say that God only is as we are able to think him to be. We 1 It should be remarked that Hamilton carefully distinguishes, as those with whom he contends do not,... | |
 | Bible - 1874 - 824 pages
...but the Infinite God cannot by us be comprehended or conceived. We know God according to the iinitudo of our faculties, but we believe much that we are incompetent properly to know." Once more, he objects to those who say that although the infinite is not comprehended, it is apprehended... | |
 | Edmund Gough de Salis Wood - Faith and reason - 1867 - 50 pages
...comprehended, conceived as-He-is, by our reason. We know God only according to the finitude of our present faculties ; but we believe much that we are incompetent properly to know. Faith, belief, is the organ by which we apprehend what is beyond our knowledge. We may put this doctrine... | |
 | Joseph Haven - Philosophy - 1869 - 514 pages
...faculties, be comprehended or conceived. A deity understood would be no deity at all ; and it is blasphemy to say that God only is as we are able to think him to be. We know God according to the fmitude of our faculties ; but we believe much that we are incompetent properly to know."2 A God understood... | |
 | Amos Dean - Civilization - 1869 - 542 pages
...contradictory of the other. The absolute, the infinite, the unconditioned, are utterly inconceivable by us. We know God according to the finitude of our faculties, but we believe much that we are incompetent to know—faith. Belief is the organ by which we apprehend what is beyond our knowledge. The philosophy... | |
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We must believe in the infinity of God; but the infinite God cannot by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived. A Deity understood, would be no Deity at all ; and it is blasphemy to say that God only is as we are able... 
