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... questions which at one time or another disturb us all , the conviction that the God of nature is also the God of human relationships and the God of reason helps towards a solution of our difficulty . One or two illustrations may be ...
... questions which at one time or another disturb us all , the conviction that the God of nature is also the God of human relationships and the God of reason helps towards a solution of our difficulty . One or two illustrations may be ...
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... , or - if that phrase seems to beg the question - no relation to God ? If only they brought to bear on the matter of the dispute their faith in the doctrine of the Trinity , the idealists THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY 27.
... , or - if that phrase seems to beg the question - no relation to God ? If only they brought to bear on the matter of the dispute their faith in the doctrine of the Trinity , the idealists THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY 27.
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... questions : Should we count love less divine , if we all agreed that it had won its supremacy over men's allegiance through the long experience of countless generations ? Should we count it more divine , if we all agreed that it had not ...
... questions : Should we count love less divine , if we all agreed that it had won its supremacy over men's allegiance through the long experience of countless generations ? Should we count it more divine , if we all agreed that it had not ...
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... question - have come to despair of finding a spir- itual home within the churches . They cannot throw in their lot with those who deliberately ignore a large part of the divine revelation , and who expect them to discard their equipment ...
... question - have come to despair of finding a spir- itual home within the churches . They cannot throw in their lot with those who deliberately ignore a large part of the divine revelation , and who expect them to discard their equipment ...
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... questions were formerly claimed to have been settled by the highest religious authority which had scarcely , in fact , reached the stage of being in- telligently asked . We all know the kind of man who is quite willing to admit that he ...
... questions were formerly claimed to have been settled by the highest religious authority which had scarcely , in fact , reached the stage of being in- telligently asked . We all know the kind of man who is quite willing to admit that he ...
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Page 97 - IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain: Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake...
Page 22 - So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God; and yet they are not three Gods but one God...
Page 92 - Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Page 66 - I report, as a man may of God's work — all's love, yet all's law. Now I lay down the judgeship he lent me. Each faculty tasked To perceive him, has gained an abyss, where a dewdrop was asked.
Page 34 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 5 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 121 - Drop yon. blue bosom-veil of sky, and show me The breasts o' her tenderness: Never did any milk of hers once bless My thirsting mouth. Nigh and nigh draws the chase, With unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed majestic instancy And past those Noise'd Feet A voice comes yet more fleet — "Lo! naught contents thee, who content'st not Me.
Page 34 - For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 40 - Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Page 68 - Though dark my path and sad my lot, Let me be still, and murmur not, Or breathe the prayer divinely taught, "Thy will be done.