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Page v
... Christianity , with its hopes and its duties , brings no regret . This book is not addressed to such . It does not aim to make an unwilling con- vert ; it does not seek to convince any one against his will , to wring a verdict by force ...
... Christianity , with its hopes and its duties , brings no regret . This book is not addressed to such . It does not aim to make an unwilling con- vert ; it does not seek to convince any one against his will , to wring a verdict by force ...
Page vi
... Christian religion pre- sents no difficulties to them ; the system of doctrine which they have inherited from their ancestors is adequate and satisfying ; they are either ignorant of the course of modern thought , or they hold religious ...
... Christian religion pre- sents no difficulties to them ; the system of doctrine which they have inherited from their ancestors is adequate and satisfying ; they are either ignorant of the course of modern thought , or they hold religious ...
Page vii
... Christ beyond this life , and no hope in the life to come for one who has not exercised such a saving faith in this life , and yet who found no moral or in- tellectual difficulty in speaking words of comfort and hope to heart - broken ...
... Christ beyond this life , and no hope in the life to come for one who has not exercised such a saving faith in this life , and yet who found no moral or in- tellectual difficulty in speaking words of comfort and hope to heart - broken ...
Page ix
... Christianity by logical processes as to state them in thinkable form . It is not an attempt to con- struct a new theology , still less is it polemically di- rected against an old theology : though in some cases , for the sake of greater ...
... Christianity by logical processes as to state them in thinkable form . It is not an attempt to con- struct a new theology , still less is it polemically di- rected against an old theology : though in some cases , for the sake of greater ...
Page x
... Christian religion . Spiritual truth can never be accurately stated in intellectual forms . It is vital , not philosophical : and something is always lost in the attempt to translate it from the realm of experience into that of ...
... Christian religion . Spiritual truth can never be accurately stated in intellectual forms . It is vital , not philosophical : and something is always lost in the attempt to translate it from the realm of experience into that of ...
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Page 154 - I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Page 22 - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Page 88 - If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, " Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them ;" thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Page 22 - But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Page 199 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand; But it shall not come nigh thee.
Page 70 - If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me, Even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day. The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Page 54 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty, that he is ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed.
Page 178 - The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire.
Page 98 - When this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest moral reformer and martyr to that mission who ever existed upon earth, religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity...
Page 197 - And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him; for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you.