Christian Thought, 4. köideCharles Force Deems, John Bancroft Devins W.B. Ketcham, 1886 |
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... intellect and spirit , and the perpetual stimulus to human thirst for freedom ? Thousands of worshippers might have been drawn to a shrine constructed for this chain , and a service insti- tuted such as had made the Hellenic temples of ...
... intellect and spirit , and the perpetual stimulus to human thirst for freedom ? Thousands of worshippers might have been drawn to a shrine constructed for this chain , and a service insti- tuted such as had made the Hellenic temples of ...
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... intellect before you can form to yourself the idea of a person who can even think " atom , " much less know " atom " ; that is to say , a person who can have an intelligent cognition connected with the word " atom " must have a power of ...
... intellect before you can form to yourself the idea of a person who can even think " atom , " much less know " atom " ; that is to say , a person who can have an intelligent cognition connected with the word " atom " must have a power of ...
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... intellect as you will be starved in body . The things verifiable are useful ; the things unverifiable are indispensable . When , then , we turn to another part of our nature , shall we starve out our souls by rejecting the unverifiable ...
... intellect as you will be starved in body . The things verifiable are useful ; the things unverifiable are indispensable . When , then , we turn to another part of our nature , shall we starve out our souls by rejecting the unverifiable ...
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... intellect not less than the character will not even hold its own when it ceases to pray and to aspire . " This profound statement in reference to philosophy has its application in no field of thought more appositely than in that of ...
... intellect not less than the character will not even hold its own when it ceases to pray and to aspire . " This profound statement in reference to philosophy has its application in no field of thought more appositely than in that of ...
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... - pieces of the human intellect . If it was known to - day that any man could infallibly interpret them , thousands of students would gather at the feet of such an one for instruction THE APOLOGETIC VALUE OF PAUL'S BELIEFS . 43.
... - pieces of the human intellect . If it was known to - day that any man could infallibly interpret them , thousands of students would gather at the feet of such an one for instruction THE APOLOGETIC VALUE OF PAUL'S BELIEFS . 43.
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Page 68 - THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that ' this is I : ' But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of ' I,' and 'me,' And finds ' I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
Page 322 - Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high ? She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. Her young ones also suck up blood : and where the slain are, there is she.
Page 325 - But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Page 416 - Then Jesus answering said unto them. Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised. to the poor the gospel is preached.
Page 323 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out. For who hath known the mind of the Lord?
Page 83 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Page 243 - Fresh pleasure only: for the attentive mind By this harmonious action on her powers Becomes herself harmonious: wont so oft In outward things to meditate the charm Of sacred order, soon she seeks at home To find a kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspir'd delight: her temper'd powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien.
Page 129 - There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 332 - Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Page 41 - And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.