The Christian Examiner, Volume 82Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1867 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... nature of the subject . The truths of theology are not topics of scientific knowledge , but of faith . We cannot know them as we know the facts of science , although the assurance of them may be as great or greater than that which ...
... nature of the subject . The truths of theology are not topics of scientific knowledge , but of faith . We cannot know them as we know the facts of science , although the assurance of them may be as great or greater than that which ...
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... Nature had designed them to weigh coffee and sugar ; but Fate willed that they should weigh quite other things , and placed for one a King , for the other a God , in the scales . " - " Since Kant's polemic , theism has been extinct in ...
... Nature had designed them to weigh coffee and sugar ; but Fate willed that they should weigh quite other things , and placed for one a King , for the other a God , in the scales . " - " Since Kant's polemic , theism has been extinct in ...
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... Nature , but art forced to worship the God of the State . " Already Lucretius had made atheism popular , - had com- mended it by the charm of his immortal verse . Enlightened Rome no longer believed in the gods . Even the unlearned ...
... Nature , but art forced to worship the God of the State . " Already Lucretius had made atheism popular , - had com- mended it by the charm of his immortal verse . Enlightened Rome no longer believed in the gods . Even the unlearned ...
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... nature ; but it is also characterized , as Schmidt well says , by a certain severity of reflection , and a certain dryness of form , while in the hopelessness of its general tone it seems to trample coldly upon all individual life . But ...
... nature ; but it is also characterized , as Schmidt well says , by a certain severity of reflection , and a certain dryness of form , while in the hopelessness of its general tone it seems to trample coldly upon all individual life . But ...
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... nature . Again : the idyls of the Palatinate , by Maler Müller , and Voss's touching pictures , had done some- thing to take the German mind out of the dark byways of feverish and busy cities into the sunlight of green hillsides and the ...
... nature . Again : the idyls of the Palatinate , by Maler Müller , and Voss's touching pictures , had done some- thing to take the German mind out of the dark byways of feverish and busy cities into the sunlight of green hillsides and the ...
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Page 6 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 152 - Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 145 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 392 - CRAIK (GEORGE LILLIE)— ENGLISH OF SHAKESPEARE. Illustrated in a Philological Commentary on his Julius Caesar.
Page 90 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Page 316 - It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man.
Page 127 - Thus saith the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein. And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Page 145 - See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil, in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, and His statutes, and His judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply : and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Page 101 - I am the way, the truth and the life. I am the resurrection and the life.
Page 90 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee ? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?