Individual ImmortalityJ. Murray, 1903 - 136 pages |
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... less of them now , perhaps chiefly because many people doubt the reality of that life itself . To enter into the reasons for this uncertainty would be to forestall the enquiry undertaken in the following pages . The writer's aim ...
... less of them now , perhaps chiefly because many people doubt the reality of that life itself . To enter into the reasons for this uncertainty would be to forestall the enquiry undertaken in the following pages . The writer's aim ...
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... less of the unrest , the unwise haste , the dis- appointment , which too often characterise and impede workers in the cause of social regeneration , if they were able to realise that even in the case of individuals there is a larger ...
... less of the unrest , the unwise haste , the dis- appointment , which too often characterise and impede workers in the cause of social regeneration , if they were able to realise that even in the case of individuals there is a larger ...
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... less appropriate . It is individual persistence in personal powers and consciousness that to the great majority of men constitutes immortality . If this persistence be denied , they care little for the possibility of survival as ...
... less appropriate . It is individual persistence in personal powers and consciousness that to the great majority of men constitutes immortality . If this persistence be denied , they care little for the possibility of survival as ...
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... less im- portance than intellectual abstractions and rounded logical systems . To the minds of all ordinary men it makes , and it ought to make , a vast difference in the duty of each individual now , whether his outlook , not as ...
... less im- portance than intellectual abstractions and rounded logical systems . To the minds of all ordinary men it makes , and it ought to make , a vast difference in the duty of each individual now , whether his outlook , not as ...
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... less selfish appreciation of the cosmos and of man's place in it . But the tendency may easily be carried too far . There is a worth , a cosmical significance in individuality which we disregard at our peril , and one aspect of which ...
... less selfish appreciation of the cosmos and of man's place in it . But the tendency may easily be carried too far . There is a worth , a cosmical significance in individuality which we disregard at our peril , and one aspect of which ...
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Page 32 - Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Page 89 - That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it : This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
Page 15 - Hell, athirst alway? I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. "I am thyself, — what hast thou done to me?" "And I — and I — thyself,
Page 133 - For which cause we faint not ; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...
Page 110 - For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Page 107 - Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die.
Page 106 - Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Page 120 - If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Page 107 - And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.
Page 132 - He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.