An Essay Toward FaithLongsmans, Green and Company, 1905 - 173 sivua |
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abuse AITH amidst beautiful believe Bible blind trust Book of Genesis casuistry character child's heart Christian Church claim contradiction criticism demands demnation Divine doctrine dogma doubt earth earthly effort emotion ence endeavour Esau eternal exegesis exer experience fact faculty fail fain fore freedom God's grasp habit harmony heaven heavenly human heart imagination impulse instinct intel intellectual Jesus Christ judgment knowledge lays hold lectual lies living logical man's mands means ment metaphysical method mighty mind moral mystery narrow nature needs ness never oblation ology outward passing path perience Pharisaic prayer pride progress question reality reason religion religious rest content revelation reverence righteousness sacrifice Saints scien scientific scorn Scripture seek sense shibboleth shrinks sibility sloth social soul soul's speculative sphere spiritual strangely superstitions temper tence things thought tical tific tion tradition true truth utter vidual vision voice whole words worldly
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Sivu 79 - I passed, into my heart conveyed So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief That passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could maintain, Nowhere, dominion o'er the enlightened spirit Whose meditative sympathies repose Upon the breast of Faith. I turned away, And walked along my road in happiness.
Sivu 124 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Sivu 78 - My Friend ! enough to sorrow you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more; Be wise and cheerful; and no longer read The forms of things with an unworthy eye. She sleeps in the calm earth, and peace is here. I well remember that those very plumes, Those weeds, and the high spear-grass on that wall, By mist and silent rain-drops silvered o'er...
Sivu 63 - ... he cried, Woe is me ! for I am undone ; because I am. a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips : for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
Sivu 76 - I believe that these fugitive attempts to reconstruct a dream, whose only end is beauty, represent confused reminiscences of an age of gold haunting the human heart ; or rather, aspirations towards a harmony of things which everyday reality denies to us, and of which art alone gives us a glimpse.
Sivu 168 - I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that liveth in me...
Sivu 76 - By the instinctive collaboration of everybody concerned, wit and taste hold festival, and the associations of reality are exchanged for the associations of imagination. So understood, society is a form of poetry ; the cultivated classes deliberately recompose the idyll of the past, and the buried world of Astraea.
Sivu 102 - I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. — I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Sivu vi - Now faith may be thus understood ; it is that power by which a man gives himself up to anything, seeks, wills, adheres to, and unites with it, so that his life lives in it, and belongs to it. Now to whatever the soul gives itself up ; whatever it hungereth after...
Sivu 128 - So shall an entrance be ministered unto us abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.