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¹ See Appendix action agnostic agnosticism anthropomorphic argument atheism Bishop Butler Brahmanism Buddhism called certainty of religion certainty of right CHAPTER character Christian religion Comparative Religion conceive concept concept of God consciousness conviction death Deity desire divine doubt duty eternal Ethical certainty evil evolution existence fact Father fear finite forgiveness God's human mind human nature imagine immediate certainty immortality incomprehensible individual infallible infinite intellectual invisible irreligion Jesus Christ judge judgment Leslie Stephen living logical man's manifestation matter mental monotheism moral law objective ourselves Pantheism perceive perfect perfect concept physical pleasure and pain polytheism Polytheists probability produce prussic acid question reality reason recognise religious certainty religious feelings renounced right and wrong scientific seems selfish sinner sins social spirit stream of consciousness suppose sure teaching things thought tion true religion trust trustworthy truth unity universe unto verified visible and tangible whole worship
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Page 91 - If our love were but more simple, We should take him at his word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of our Lord.
Page 67 - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
Page 97 - But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.
Page 53 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : But he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 79 - And the Publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Page 81 - Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.
Page 145 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life.
Page 133 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
Page 134 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 138 - My thesis now is this: That when we think of the law that thought is a function of the brain, we are not required to think of productive function only; we are entitled also to consider permissive or transmissive function.