The Eclipse of Faith: Or, A Visit to a Religious ScepticLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1852 - 452 pages |
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Page 376 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Page 342 - Catholic England has been restored to its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament, from which its light had long vanished, and begins now anew its course of regularly adjusted action round the centre of unity, the source of jurisdiction, of light and of vigour.
Page 413 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife ; and they two shall be one flesh.
Page 413 - Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life ; that your prayers be not hindered.
Page 339 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 147 - The nature of the case implies, that the human mind is competent to sit in moral and spiritual judgment on a professed revelation ; and to decide (if the case seem to require it) in the following tone : This doctrine attributes to God that- which we should call harsh, cruel, or unjust in man: it is therefore intrinsically inadmissible...
Page 293 - I love and esteem so much as the New Testament, with the devotional parts of the Old. There is none which I know so intimately, the very words of which dwell close to me in my most sacred thoughts, none for which I so thank God, none on which my soul and heart have been to so great an extent moulded. In my early boyhood it was my private delight and daily companion ; and to it I owe the best part of whatever wisdom there is in my manhood.
Page 132 - Phoebus-Apollo when the Sun rose or went down; yes, many a savage, his hands smeared all over with human sacrifice, shall come from the East and the West, and sit down in the Kingdom of God, with Moses and Zoroaster, with Socrates and Jesus...
Page 81 - spiritual freedom ?' If anything be divine about Mr. Newman's system, surely it must be this. Ought you not to thank God that he has been thus pleased to ' open your eyes,' and to turn you from ' darkness to light ' — to raise up in these last days such an apostle of the truth which had lain so long ' hidden from ages and generations ? ' Can you do less than admire the divine artifice by which, when it was impossible for God directly to tell man that he could directly tell him, nothing, He raised...
Page 107 - I next proceed. 1 1 do not know how to avoid calling this a moral error ; but I must carefully guard against seeming to overlook that it may be still a merely speculative error, which ought not to separate our hearts from any man. If we see another to love goodness and shudder at evil, he is to be loved, although he may hold a theory, which we think logically tends to annihilate exertion for the good and against the evil.