Records of Jesus Reviewed and Fifty Questions Answered Through Five Hundred Reverent ReasonersUnion Company, 1883 - 294 pages |
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... morality be planted therein . " He believed with Milton that to know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom . A young girl was lately asking a very common question as to the ethics of horse - car tickets , and , on ...
... morality be planted therein . " He believed with Milton that to know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom . A young girl was lately asking a very common question as to the ethics of horse - car tickets , and , on ...
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... moral universe . It is no arbitrary enactment of Christianity alone , but it is based in the very nature of man . All moral and spiritual life comes from faith in things unseen . All real knowledge has its roots in faith . He who doubts ...
... moral universe . It is no arbitrary enactment of Christianity alone , but it is based in the very nature of man . All moral and spiritual life comes from faith in things unseen . All real knowledge has its roots in faith . He who doubts ...
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... moral teaching , then , whether within the Bible or with- out , addresses itself to the consciousness of the disciple . Neither Reason nor Faith is to be flouted at . Reasoning is not to be subordinate , but co - ordinate with the ...
... moral teaching , then , whether within the Bible or with- out , addresses itself to the consciousness of the disciple . Neither Reason nor Faith is to be flouted at . Reasoning is not to be subordinate , but co - ordinate with the ...
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... moral benefactors to their race , and almost as martyrs also , when it is remembered how much misunder- standing , obloquy , and plausible folly they had to endure from well- meaning fanatics , like Fairholme or Granville Penn and the ...
... moral benefactors to their race , and almost as martyrs also , when it is remembered how much misunder- standing , obloquy , and plausible folly they had to endure from well- meaning fanatics , like Fairholme or Granville Penn and the ...
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... moral perfection . " God then exists as three eternal beings who are eternally distinct , which is an unthinka- ble absurdity . There is not room in the universe for three eternals . —James K. Applebee ( The Commonwealth , Oct. 14 ...
... moral perfection . " God then exists as three eternal beings who are eternally distinct , which is an unthinka- ble absurdity . There is not room in the universe for three eternals . —James K. Applebee ( The Commonwealth , Oct. 14 ...
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Page 43 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Page 141 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Page 112 - To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak : I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Page 244 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Page 75 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Page 82 - We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. ' The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. ' The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by path-ways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. ' The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden Sight, But...
Page 89 - A man to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause.
Page 161 - One adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists — one only; an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power; Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good.
Page 56 - Father denotes the momentum of necessity, the " procession " of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son, denotes the momentum of freedom in the inner revelation.
Page 247 - There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.