Belief in God: An Examination of Some Fundamental Theistic ProblemsGeorge H. Ellis, 1881 - 176 páginas |
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Belief in God: An Examination of Some Fundamental Theistic Problems Minot Judson Savage Visualização integral - 1881 |
Belief in God: An Examination of Some Fundamental Theistic Problems Minot Judson Savage Visualização integral - 1881 |
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absurd Agnosticism answer anthropomorphic argument from design assert atheist beauty believe Bible brain cerning Christian church conceive conscious dead death divine doctrine earth environment eternal evil exist eyes face facts faith feeling force forever give glory God's gods goes grand grander hand heart heaven henotheism Herbert Spencer hope human experience ideal infi infinite infinity intelligence Jesus John Locke knowledge language laws light ligion live look man's manifestations matter Max Müller mean mind modern monotheism mysterious natural laws nature nature of things never noblest omnipotent pantheism philosophy polytheism possible pray prayer question rational reality reason religion religious result scientific method sense shadow ship simply soul speak spiritual stand stars Suppose tell Theodore Parker things thought thrilled tion to-day touch true truth universe utter Voltaire word worship
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Página 173 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun: If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice "believe no more" And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd "I have felt.
Página 60 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Página 46 - THOU art, O God ! the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.
Página 64 - Rest unto our souls." —Rest unto our souls! — 'tis all we want, — the end of all our wishes and pursuits : give us a prospect of this, we take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth...
Página 132 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.
Página 136 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Página 145 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Página 111 - And this is in the night: — Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee!
Página 152 - Deluding and deluded cries The Prophet's brother-Priest: And Israel all bows down to fall Before the gilded beast. Devout, indeed ! that priestly creed, O Man, reject as sin ; The clouded hill attend thou still, And him that went within. He yet shall bring some worthy thing For waiting souls to see : Some sacred word that he hath heard Their light and life shall be; Some lofty part, than which the heart Adopt no nobler can, Thou shalt receive, thou shalt believe And thou shalt do, O Man ! QUI LABOR...
Página 37 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...