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... thought- ful people to - day . As I have stated in the first lecture , I am convinced that of all the causes which lead men at the present time to hold aloof from organized Christianity , the most potent is the unwil- lingness of ...
... thought- ful people to - day . As I have stated in the first lecture , I am convinced that of all the causes which lead men at the present time to hold aloof from organized Christianity , the most potent is the unwil- lingness of ...
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... thoughts arise- thoughts come to us from mountain and nestling lake , from the flaming sunset , from the song of birds - teaching us that beauty also is an attribute of the God whom nature reveals . These things- power , order , beauty ...
... thoughts arise- thoughts come to us from mountain and nestling lake , from the flaming sunset , from the song of birds - teaching us that beauty also is an attribute of the God whom nature reveals . These things- power , order , beauty ...
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... thought and speech and action revealed a love which was stronger than sin , and stronger than death . We cannot expect , and we do not need , teaching about the moral nature of God that goes higher than that ; we are content henceforth ...
... thought and speech and action revealed a love which was stronger than sin , and stronger than death . We cannot expect , and we do not need , teaching about the moral nature of God that goes higher than that ; we are content henceforth ...
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... thoughts of different men are not all on the same level , but there is one respect in which the thinking of the plain ... thought in a University Ser- mon preached at Cambridge in October , 1921 ( see The Inter- preter for Jan. 1922 , pp ...
... thoughts of different men are not all on the same level , but there is one respect in which the thinking of the plain ... thought in a University Ser- mon preached at Cambridge in October , 1921 ( see The Inter- preter for Jan. 1922 , pp ...
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... thought that they best fulfilled their mission by teaching men to take a restricted view of God's relation with the working of man's brain . They have conceived of inspiration as some- thing that operates only in the region of ...
... thought that they best fulfilled their mission by teaching men to take a restricted view of God's relation with the working of man's brain . They have conceived of inspiration as some- thing that operates only in the region of ...
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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.