 | James Allanson Picton - 1870 - 250 pages
...they last, and do we not live in dreams ? Speak to Him thou, for He hears, and spirit with spirit can meet, Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." But it will not need modern poets to give voice to the resurrection joy of faith. There was one of... | |
 | James Allanson Picton - Theology - 1870 - 248 pages
...they last, and do we not live in dreams ? Speak to Him thou, for He hears, and spirit with spirit can meet, Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." But it will not need modern poets to give voice to the resurrection joy of faith. There was one of... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - Sermons, English - 1870 - 360 pages
...our being, with whom we may speak and be spoken to : — " For He hears, and spirit with spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." This is the same as a new affection ; and the affection becomes the new life. There had been something... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 216 pages
...gleams, and a stifled splendor and gloom. Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer .is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise, O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise ; O Soul, and let us rejoice,...if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some : no God at all, says the fool ; For all we have power to see is a straight staff... | |
 | Harry Buxton Forman - English poetry - 1871 - 536 pages
...hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer thnn hands and feet. God is law, say the wise ; O Soul, and let us rejoice,...if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some : no God at all, says the fool ; For all we have power to see is a straight staff... | |
 | George Stewardson Brady - 1871 - 28 pages
...moulds, Himself and Nature in one form enfolds.* And again, Tennyson, — God is law, say the wise ; 0 Soul, and let us rejoice, For if he thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God say some : no God at all, says the fool ; For all we have power to see is a straight staff... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 306 pages
...hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet God is law, say the wise ; O Soul, and let us rejoice,...if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some : no God at all, says the fool; For all we have power to see is a straight stafj... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1872 - 816 pages
...the web explained by referring it, not to the weaver, but to the loom? " God is law, aay the wise, 0 Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law, the thunder is still Hig voice." Yet it must be admitted, that, with most minds, the result of establishing such a... | |
 | Criticism - 1872 - 816 pages
...still His work. Tennyson's beautiful lines deserve a second quotation " God ia law, say the wise, 0 Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law, the thunder is still His voice." ARTICLE IV.— THE FOUNDATION OF MORAL OBLIGATION. THE foundation of moral obligation... | |
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Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. 
