Records of Jesus Reviewed and Fifty Questions Answered Through Five Hundred Reverent ReasonersUnion Company, 1883 - 294 pages |
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... sense discountenances the logic dilemma of the Mohammedan that burned the Alexandrian library : namely , if the books accorded with the Koran , they were superfluous ; if not , they were pernicious . Rather pleasanter to contemplate is ...
... sense discountenances the logic dilemma of the Mohammedan that burned the Alexandrian library : namely , if the books accorded with the Koran , they were superfluous ; if not , they were pernicious . Rather pleasanter to contemplate is ...
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... senses are silent , but nothing that they deny.- Charles Pascal . In religion , which is the science of life in its relations Godward , we want facts first , and imagination , with all its treasures of worship , idealism , sentiment ...
... senses are silent , but nothing that they deny.- Charles Pascal . In religion , which is the science of life in its relations Godward , we want facts first , and imagination , with all its treasures of worship , idealism , sentiment ...
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... sense of spiritual things . Then , we are young , though years and cares have marked wrinkles on our brow . We are full of life , though on the verge of the tomb . We are happy , hopeful , contented , and have an inward peace which is ...
... sense of spiritual things . Then , we are young , though years and cares have marked wrinkles on our brow . We are full of life , though on the verge of the tomb . We are happy , hopeful , contented , and have an inward peace which is ...
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... sense view of the Bible is that it is our guide and our teacher , because it is full of truth . It is because it is so , compact with divine things that we say it is from God . We do not say it is true because it is inspired , but we ...
... sense view of the Bible is that it is our guide and our teacher , because it is full of truth . It is because it is so , compact with divine things that we say it is from God . We do not say it is true because it is inspired , but we ...
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... Sense in Religion , pp . 88 , 93 , 98 ) . Other eloquent adherents of the natural theory have not been always equally so careful to distinguish inspiration from perception : - Inspiration is a perpetual fact . Prophets and apostles are ...
... Sense in Religion , pp . 88 , 93 , 98 ) . Other eloquent adherents of the natural theory have not been always equally so careful to distinguish inspiration from perception : - Inspiration is a perpetual fact . Prophets and apostles are ...
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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.