Virtue be the highest end with the Creator, Then to lose His own work, not casually and by exception, But necessarily and always, agrees not with his Infinitude More than with his Wisdom, nor more than with his Blessedness. In short, close friendship... The Hopes of the Human Race: Hereafter and Here - Page 49by Frances Power Cobbe - 1874 - 218 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis William Newman - Christian life - 1858 - 208 pages
...love at all. Whomsoever therefore he loves, they partake of his eternity ; But to say that he loves no man, is to make religion vain. Hence it is judged, that "whatsoever God loveth, liveth with God," Whatsoever imbibes his essence and breathes his purity, Whatsoever dwells in his bosom and rejoices... | |
| Christianity - 1872 - 606 pages
...God's infinitude, Which easily supports sorrows which would weigh us down ; For if to promote Virtue bo the highest end with the Creator, Then to lose His...of the Divine purposes, lead up indirectly to the conclusion that there must be another act of the drama after that on which the curtain falls at death.... | |
| Francis William Newman - Theism - 1874 - 196 pages
...love at all. Whomsoever therefore he loves, they partake of his eternity ; But to say that he loves no man, is to make religion vain. Hence it is judged, that "whatsoever God loveth, liveth with God, Whatsoever imbibes his essence and breathes his purity, Whatsoever dwells in his bosom and rejoices... | |
| Frances Power Cobbe - Future life - 1880 - 236 pages
...and blessed thing God ever made, and believe that at any moment that mind and heart may cease to le, and become only a memory, every noble gift and grace...of the Divine purposes, lead up indirectly to the conclusion that there must be another act of the drama after that on which the curtain falls at death.... | |
| Religion - 1881 - 552 pages
...short, close friendship between the Eternal and the Perishing Appears unseemly to the nature of th-.1 Eternal, Whom it befits to keep His beloved, or not...religion vain ; Hence it is judged that "whatsoever GoĦ> loveth, liveth with GOD." francos Power OM.f. VOICE of Christian Song through the Ages. Let ш... | |
| Henry Westcott - Sermons, American - 1884 - 274 pages
...that those whom God loves are deathless ; Else would the divine blessedness be imperfect and impaired. In short, close friendship between the Eternal and...judged that ' whatsoever God loveth liveth with God.'" I see not how we can avoid such a thought as this : if God has any love for his children, and has the... | |
| Joseph Estlin Carpenter - Faith - 1898 - 120 pages
...of the Eternal, Whom it befits to keep his beloved, or not to love at all. But to say that he loves no man is to make religion vain. Hence it is judged that ' whatsoever God loveth, liveth with God.' On this great theme, however, argument after all can be of slight avail. 1 Faith in God and in our... | |
| Bible - 1902 - 830 pages
...perishing and the Eternal that Francis William Newman, in his " Theism," said : " But to say that He loves no man is to make religion vain. Hence it is judged...that ' whatsoever God loveth, liveth with God.' " In view of all that has now been advanced, it seems a clearly-marked-out duty for us, as religionists,... | |
| William Chester - Immortality - 1903 - 216 pages
...unseemly to the nature of the Eternal, Whom it befits to keep His beloved, or not to love at all. 164 But to say God loveth no man, is to make religion vain : Hence it is judged that ' whatever God loveth, liveth with God.' " Summing up, then, we see that all of God's attributes of... | |
| James Lindsay - Idealism - 1917 - 554 pages
...of the Eternal, Whom it befits to keep His beloved, or not to love at all. But to say that He loves no man is to make religion vain. Hence it is judged that ' whatsoever God loveth, liveth with God.' " It will be seen that our contention, in the foregoing reflections, is that the soul's vigor et coelestis... | |
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