Plain Facts for Fair Minds: An Appeal to Candor and Common SenseCatholic Book Exchange, 1895 - 360 pages |
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... vast numbers - you are perhaps one yourself who are in just this ignorance or doubt . It is simply astonishing that there should be two hundred millions of people hold- ing one faith , and spread through all parts of 2 Introductory .
... vast numbers - you are perhaps one yourself who are in just this ignorance or doubt . It is simply astonishing that there should be two hundred millions of people hold- ing one faith , and spread through all parts of 2 Introductory .
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... perhaps he is so ; for I should have to blame myself ; having been once as ignorant myself , and yet fancying I knew it all . But that was some time ago . Well now , we will come back to the line on which we started . are a Christian ...
... perhaps he is so ; for I should have to blame myself ; having been once as ignorant myself , and yet fancying I knew it all . But that was some time ago . Well now , we will come back to the line on which we started . are a Christian ...
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... perhaps we cannot hold to much longer ; I have a suspicion that perhaps women have more sense than some men imagine , and that we had better not be too confident that we are so much more clever than they , even in an argument . But let ...
... perhaps we cannot hold to much longer ; I have a suspicion that perhaps women have more sense than some men imagine , and that we had better not be too confident that we are so much more clever than they , even in an argument . But let ...
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... Perhaps you deny this . But you must at least admit that every religion rests on some statements which it holds to be true ; some dogmas , as such statements in the matter of religion are properly called . It is merely nonsense 6 ...
... Perhaps you deny this . But you must at least admit that every religion rests on some statements which it holds to be true ; some dogmas , as such statements in the matter of religion are properly called . It is merely nonsense 6 ...
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... perhaps think the principal part of religion must rest on them . One can't get excited or deeply moved about nothing . Even a lunatic is joyful or melancholy about something ; something which he thinks is a fact , though we may see ...
... perhaps think the principal part of religion must rest on them . One can't get excited or deeply moved about nothing . Even a lunatic is joyful or melancholy about something ; something which he thinks is a fact , though we may see ...
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Plain Facts for Fair Minds: An Appeal to Candor and Common Sense - Primary ... George Mary Searle No preview available - 2013 |
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Page 117 - Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Page 129 - Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Page 245 - He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord ; but he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Page 46 - And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you, as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not ; and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
Page 147 - Let every soul be subject to higher powers: for there is no power but from God: and those that are, are ordained of God.
Page 103 - When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.
Page 64 - And that in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist, there is truly, really, and substantially the body and blood, together with the SOUL and DIVINITY of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 133 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Page 117 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this : Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Page 248 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder ; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps...