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according Ananda annihilation appears Ashvaghosha's aspirations âtman attained become believe Bhikkhus birth Blessed bliss body Brahman Buddha and Christ Buddhism and Christianity Buddhist called Catholic Chinese Chris Christianity church conception death deeds deliverance denies the existence Dhammapada Dharma disciples dualism earth enlightenment eternal ethics evil expressed faith Gautama Gautama Siddhartha gods Goethe Gospel Gutzlaff haoma Hardy heart heaven holy idea illusion important India Jataka Jesus Karma king living lust Mahâyâna man's mankind Max Müller means metaphysical mind missionaries Monier Monier-Williams monistic monk moral Nâgasena nature nihilism Nirvâna original pagan pain Pâli passage path PAUL CARUS philosophy prayer preach priest Professor Oldenberg Professor Williams psychology quietism regarded religious Rhys Davids righteousness Sacred Books salvation Sâmkhya samskâras Sanskrit says sense Sîha similar soul speak spirit suffering teaches theory things thinker thought tion translation transmigration true Upanishads Vacchagotta Vaisheshika verse word
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Page 184 - Wherefore take unto you. the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness...
Page 55 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 190 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Page 307 - Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner...
Page 243 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's. isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown : The heathen in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone.
Page 118 - There was the Door to which I found no Key; There was the Veil through which I could not see: Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee There was — and then no more of Thee and Me.
Page 144 - Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are.
Page 185 - ... for if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Page 112 - Da ich ein Kind war, Nicht wußte, wo aus noch ein, Kehrt' ich mein verirrtes Auge Zur Sonne, als wenn drüber wär' Ein Ohr, zu hören meine Klage, Ein Herz wie meins, Sich des Bedrängten zu erbarmen.
Page 118 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries, "Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There.