Occasional Thoughts of an Astronomer on Nature & Revelation

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J. Murray, 1889 - 273 páginas
 

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Página 31 - That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
Página 16 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Página 42 - As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.
Página 91 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
Página 189 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Página 232 - And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies: is not this written in the book of Jasher ? so the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Página 168 - I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Página 197 - not by power, nor by might, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
Página 51 - Believe me, to pray with all your heart and strength, with the reason and the will, to believe vividly that God will listen to your voice through Christ, and verily do the thing he pleaseth thereupon — this is the last, the greatest achievement of the Christian's warfare on earth. Teach us to pray, O Lord ! ' And then he burst into a flood of tears, and begged me to pray for him.
Página 135 - It is obvious how much advantage the nature of this evidence gives to those persons who attack Christianity, especially in conversation. For it is easy to show, in a short and lively manner, that such and such things are liable to objection, that this and another thing is of little weight in itself, but impossible to show in like manner the united force of the whole argument in one view.

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