The Hope of ImmortalitySeeley and Company, 1898 - 350 páginas |
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... reason , not its contradiction . Where facts and arguments are nearly balanced , it is Faith which turns the scale . I do not aspire to prove Immortality but to make it probable . In Theology every belief is subject to difficulty ; but ...
... reason , not its contradiction . Where facts and arguments are nearly balanced , it is Faith which turns the scale . I do not aspire to prove Immortality but to make it probable . In Theology every belief is subject to difficulty ; but ...
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... reason , it does not admit of demonstrative conclusions , it must be to some extent vague , trustful , hypothetical . In religion he is wise who makes the most of such evidence as is possible and attainable . So Socrates in the Phado ...
... reason , it does not admit of demonstrative conclusions , it must be to some extent vague , trustful , hypothetical . In religion he is wise who makes the most of such evidence as is possible and attainable . So Socrates in the Phado ...
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... popular rather than scientific . It is intended for readers who are not specially scholars . It is for this reason that I have translated most quotations from classical or foreign authors which occur in it INTRODUCTION.
... popular rather than scientific . It is intended for readers who are not specially scholars . It is for this reason that I have translated most quotations from classical or foreign authors which occur in it INTRODUCTION.
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... reason why right belief as well as right action is presented as human duty in the Bible . And yet it is my humble prayer that the great doctrine of Immortality may through this essay be made a little clearer and dearer to some human ...
... reason why right belief as well as right action is presented as human duty in the Bible . And yet it is my humble prayer that the great doctrine of Immortality may through this essay be made a little clearer and dearer to some human ...
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... reason why the value of the soul is infinite is its Immortality . But to come back to the chamber of death : as soon as it is admitted that the soul is of higher 1 Iliad , 1 , 3-5 . dignity than the body , and that it is separated ...
... reason why the value of the soul is infinite is its Immortality . But to come back to the chamber of death : as soon as it is admitted that the soul is of higher 1 Iliad , 1 , 3-5 . dignity than the body , and that it is separated ...
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Página 100 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Página 286 - These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee : as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
Página 223 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Página 98 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Página 166 - neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And, lo! Creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun? or who could find, Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind? Why do we then shun Death with anxious strife? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life?
Página 338 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Página 108 - But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Página 159 - THEREFORE with Angels, and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name, evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts ; heaven and earth are full of thy glory : glory be to thee, 0 Lord most high.
Página 115 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Página 322 - If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.