Christ the truth, an essay towards the organization of Christian thinking, 8 lectures

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Page 172 - IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Page 239 - For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's.
Page 245 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Page 15 - For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear,— believe the aged friend, — Is just our chance o...
Page 241 - If I may not assume that I exist, and in a particular way, that is, with a particular mental constitution, I have nothing to speculate about, and had better let speculation alone. Such as I am, it is my all; this is my essential stand-point, and must be taken for granted; otherwise, thought is but an idle amusement, not worth the trouble.
Page 242 - I, who see, and hear and think, and feel, am the one continuous self, whose existence gives unity and connection to the whole. Personality comprises all that we know of that which exists : relation to personality comprises all that we know of that which seems to exist. And when from the little world of man's consciousness and its objects, we would lift up our eyes to the inexhaustible universe beyond, and ask to whom all this is related, the highest existence is still the highest personality; and...
Page 132 - Kant made his famous statement that there is nothing in the world or even out of it that can be called good without qualification except a good will.1...
Page 241 - ... or find fault with our own nature, which is nothing else than we ourselves, instead of using it according to the use of which it ordinarily admits. Our being, with its faculties, mind and body, is a fact not admitting of question, all things being of necessity referred to it, not it to other things.
Page 255 - Heb. iii. 5. Howbeit the apostle tells us that all those things had but a " shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things themselves,

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