Christ the truth, an essay towards the organization of Christian thinking, 8 lectures1900 |
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... delivered in 1900 , is con- tained in the present volume . NOTE . - The sentences above marked as quotations are from the Deed of Trust , executed March 1896 . BRARY PREFACE . THE aim and method of the following Inquiry vi PRELIMINARY NOTE.
... delivered in 1900 , is con- tained in the present volume . NOTE . - The sentences above marked as quotations are from the Deed of Trust , executed March 1896 . BRARY PREFACE . THE aim and method of the following Inquiry vi PRELIMINARY NOTE.
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... Present Life from the Moral standpoint . The Laws of Health , Physical and Moral . Again it is Truth , the Interpretation of Facts , and Law the Imperative of Truth . The tacit appeal for a Human Ideal actually realised . The ...
... Present Life from the Moral standpoint . The Laws of Health , Physical and Moral . Again it is Truth , the Interpretation of Facts , and Law the Imperative of Truth . The tacit appeal for a Human Ideal actually realised . The ...
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... present concerned . It is not the measurable or the immeasurable extent of it that now occupies us , but solely the connota- tion of the word Real ; not the extent , but the intent of the term that we need to define : neither is it at ...
... present concerned . It is not the measurable or the immeasurable extent of it that now occupies us , but solely the connota- tion of the word Real ; not the extent , but the intent of the term that we need to define : neither is it at ...
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... present concern is rather with the more limited question of the competency of language to express this Truth . For it is obvious that any decision as to the value of dogmatic statements , formulated as a Creed , must ultimately depend ...
... present concern is rather with the more limited question of the competency of language to express this Truth . For it is obvious that any decision as to the value of dogmatic statements , formulated as a Creed , must ultimately depend ...
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... present to the soul in dogmatic statement , however carefully conceived and constructed , the actual fulness and richness of what is meant by Religion , when by that word is signified , as the heart and soul of it , the elevation of the ...
... present to the soul in dogmatic statement , however carefully conceived and constructed , the actual fulness and richness of what is meant by Religion , when by that word is signified , as the heart and soul of it , the elevation of the ...
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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,