The Restoration of Belief

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Macmillan, 1855 - 381 páginas
 

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Página 285 - And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Página 149 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye wanned and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Página 167 - I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love ; endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Página 143 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Página 325 - Christianity is not a religion for the religious, but a religion for man. I do not accept it because my temperament so disposes me, and because it meets my individual mood of mind, or my tastes. I accept it as it is suited to that moral condition in respect of which there is no difference of importance between me and the man I may next encounter on my path.
Página 147 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.
Página 109 - Indestructible elements of advancement to which even infidel nations confessedly owe whatever is best and most hopeful within them, these elements of good, which were obtained for us at so vast a cost, had their source in a congeries of exaggerations, and in a mindless conspiracy, hatched by chance, nursed by imposture, and winged by fanaticism.
Página 224 - CoNQRurrr, just so far as we can bring ourselves morally within the splendour of those eternal verities which are of the substance of the Gospel. While we stand remote from that illuminated field, they are to us only a galling perplexity: for we can neither rid ourselves of the evidence that attests...
Página 342 - I find Him such after the suffering of death as He was before it — save His recent scars. The immortality, therefore, which is held before me in the Christian scheme, is no such thing as a nucleus of conscious mist, floating about in a golden fog, amid millions of the same purposeless, limbless sparks. It is an immortality of organized material energies ; — it is the same welded mind-and-matter human nature, fitted for service, apt to labour, and capable of all those experiences, and furnished...
Página 173 - God : and would not walk in his law ; 12 But forgat what he had done : and the wonderful works that he had shewed for them. 13 Marvellous things did he in the sight of our forefathers, in the land of Egypt : even in the field of Zoan. 14 He divided the sea, and let them go through : he made the waters to stand on an heap.

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