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... inner experiences that we can learn the universal language which tells the story of common human aspirations . Just as reason , love , joy and sorrow in ourselves en- able us , and alone can enable us , to understand the same things in ...
... inner experiences that we can learn the universal language which tells the story of common human aspirations . Just as reason , love , joy and sorrow in ourselves en- able us , and alone can enable us , to understand the same things in ...
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... more private , personal , inner struggle— some conflict with temptation and sin , some wrestling in prayer , some poignant suffering in remorse and grief that awakened us to an altogether new and cleansing GREAT REALITY IN RELIGION 15.
... more private , personal , inner struggle— some conflict with temptation and sin , some wrestling in prayer , some poignant suffering in remorse and grief that awakened us to an altogether new and cleansing GREAT REALITY IN RELIGION 15.
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... inner workings of the human mind ; and that its essence consists in an instinctive feeling after the Divine , an instinctive apprehension of the Di- vine , an instinctive hunger for the Divine , an instinc- tive tendency to postulate a ...
... inner workings of the human mind ; and that its essence consists in an instinctive feeling after the Divine , an instinctive apprehension of the Di- vine , an instinctive hunger for the Divine , an instinc- tive tendency to postulate a ...
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... inner or underlying unity , amid all diversities , of the religious spirit of the race . Super- ficially , indeed , nothing seems to divide men more sharply than do their differences in matters of religion ; and yet these relate chiefly ...
... inner or underlying unity , amid all diversities , of the religious spirit of the race . Super- ficially , indeed , nothing seems to divide men more sharply than do their differences in matters of religion ; and yet these relate chiefly ...
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... inner , underlying spirit which makes us all at least dimly aware that we have spiritual aptitudes and sustain spiritual relations , and thus awakens within us a feeble or a vivid consciousness GREAT REALITY IN RELIGION 31.
... inner , underlying spirit which makes us all at least dimly aware that we have spiritual aptitudes and sustain spiritual relations , and thus awakens within us a feeble or a vivid consciousness GREAT REALITY IN RELIGION 31.
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Page 102 - But he said; Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Page 102 - The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field : but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Page 91 - And, moved through life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race Of those that, eye to eye, shall look On knowledge ; under whose command Is Earth and Earth's, and in their hand Is Nature like an open book...
Page 28 - ... made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him...
Page 74 - Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Page 115 - Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 74 - No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.
Page 23 - A religion is a form of belief, providing an ultrarational sanction for that large class of conduct in the individual where his interests and the interests of the social organism are antagonistic, and by which the former are rendered subordinate to the latter in the general interests of the evolution which the race is undergoing.
Page 48 - By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Page 102 - But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him; Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field ? from whence then hath it tares ? He said unto them; An enemy hath done this.