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... man's true self , or his moral personality , the coherent and unitary kernel of the soul , representative of our central and abiding being . This central whole is the receiving station by which our personality is tied up with the world ...
... man's true self , or his moral personality , the coherent and unitary kernel of the soul , representative of our central and abiding being . This central whole is the receiving station by which our personality is tied up with the world ...
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... man's making , are cruel fetishes which , like vampires , suck the blood out of human beings . All of those values are abstractions built upon palpable things as their base . Many Hamlets and Sistine Madonnas gave rise to a general ...
... man's making , are cruel fetishes which , like vampires , suck the blood out of human beings . All of those values are abstractions built upon palpable things as their base . Many Hamlets and Sistine Madonnas gave rise to a general ...
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... man makes use of his increasing knowledge for imparting greater subtlety to his predatory activities . But he goes much deeper than this . Once man's true self is killed by the overwhelming power of these ab- stractions of his own ...
... man makes use of his increasing knowledge for imparting greater subtlety to his predatory activities . But he goes much deeper than this . Once man's true self is killed by the overwhelming power of these ab- stractions of his own ...
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... man whom He has created . But this seems very strange : God and man are so incomparable that it is puzzling to note or ... man's attitude toward Him . God From this point of view , the Old Testament marks off two categories in the world ...
... man whom He has created . But this seems very strange : God and man are so incomparable that it is puzzling to note or ... man's attitude toward Him . God From this point of view , the Old Testament marks off two categories in the world ...
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... man's nature . " I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth . " 1 This inalienableness of man's free will makes him the peer of God . A new autonomy - that of man ...
... man's nature . " I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth . " 1 This inalienableness of man's free will makes him the peer of God . A new autonomy - that of man ...
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Popular passages
Page 54 - And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Page 113 - And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
Page 38 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud : And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Page 112 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Page 40 - For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God : the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Page 147 - Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
Page 136 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Page 59 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Page 100 - None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses...
Page 53 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.