Theism: Being the Baird Lecture for 1876 |
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... able to resist the temptations and support the trials of his lot , and would be cut off from the source of his loftiest thoughts , his richest and purest enjoyments , and his most heroic deeds . They further maintain , that without it ...
... able to resist the temptations and support the trials of his lot , and would be cut off from the source of his loftiest thoughts , his richest and purest enjoyments , and his most heroic deeds . They further maintain , that without it ...
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... able to rise by their own exer- tions to a consistent theistic belief . The God of all those among us who believe in God , even of those who reject Christianity , who reject all reve- lation , is the God of Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob ...
... able to rise by their own exer- tions to a consistent theistic belief . The God of all those among us who believe in God , even of those who reject Christianity , who reject all reve- lation , is the God of Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob ...
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... able to explain what they meant . In presence of the power which is mani- fested in the universe , or of the moral order of the world , they have felt an awe or joy , it may be , irre- sistibly raising them above themselves , above the ...
... able to explain what they meant . In presence of the power which is mani- fested in the universe , or of the moral order of the world , they have felt an awe or joy , it may be , irre- sistibly raising them above themselves , above the ...
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... able so to delude and degrade himself ! As a rule , the gods of poly- theists are such that , even under the delusion that they are gods , little improving communion with them is possible . As a rule , the religion of poly- theists ...
... able so to delude and degrade himself ! As a rule , the gods of poly- theists are such that , even under the delusion that they are gods , little improving communion with them is possible . As a rule , the religion of poly- theists ...
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... able or willing to help us . Such a view of the universe may have its attractions for the poet and the philosopher in certain moods of mind , but it assuredly affords little foundation for religion , if religion be the communion of the ...
... able or willing to help us . Such a view of the universe may have its attractions for the poet and the philosopher in certain moods of mind , but it assuredly affords little foundation for religion , if religion be the communion of the ...
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Page 176 - When he established the clouds above : When he strengthened the fountains of the deep : When he gave to the sea his decree, That the waters should not pass his commandment: When he appointed the foundations of the earth : 235 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him : And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him ; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ; And my delights were with the sons of men.
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