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... universe able and willing to prevent them . Other persons , again , take quite a different view . They believe in what they call a God , but they ascribe to him many characteristic attributes of the devil , Their God is full of evil ...
... universe able and willing to prevent them . Other persons , again , take quite a different view . They believe in what they call a God , but they ascribe to him many characteristic attributes of the devil , Their God is full of evil ...
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... universe of evil and to conquer even death and hell . Christ's isolation , social and physical , made Him calmly and divinely self - reliant . How strong He was ! Since the world began , there have been no such scathing denunciations as ...
... universe of evil and to conquer even death and hell . Christ's isolation , social and physical , made Him calmly and divinely self - reliant . How strong He was ! Since the world began , there have been no such scathing denunciations as ...
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... universe might require that there should always be living creatures of an inferior kind . And all difficulties , he concludes , as to the manner in which they would be dis- posed of , are so wholly founded in our ignorance , that " it ...
... universe might require that there should always be living creatures of an inferior kind . And all difficulties , he concludes , as to the manner in which they would be dis- posed of , are so wholly founded in our ignorance , that " it ...
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... universe is fundamentally and thoroughly irra- tional and immoral . Just think of it . Just run over its history as sketched for us by nineteenth- century materialists . In the beginning there was an infinite number of dead , inanimate ...
... universe is fundamentally and thoroughly irra- tional and immoral . Just think of it . Just run over its history as sketched for us by nineteenth- century materialists . In the beginning there was an infinite number of dead , inanimate ...
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... universe be so fundamentally irra- tional and so diabolically tantalising , why — I can- not help asking myself - why should I trouble myself about character ? If in so ridiculous and contemptible a world there be one thing more stupid ...
... universe be so fundamentally irra- tional and so diabolically tantalising , why — I can- not help asking myself - why should I trouble myself about character ? If in so ridiculous and contemptible a world there be one thing more stupid ...
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Page 131 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them ? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Page 150 - How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray.
Page 291 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 200 - Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name ? and in thy name have cast out devils ? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 168 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity it profiteth me nothing.
Page 159 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 58 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Page 12 - INDEX GEOGRAPHICUS : Being a List, alphabetically arranged, of the Principal Places on the Globe, with the Countries and Subdivisions of the Countries in which they are situated, and their Latitudes and Longitudes.
Page 315 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
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