Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1898 - 608 pages |
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Page xv
... true religion , because natural religion , based on that touch with God through nature , which has been and will always remain the life - spring of all true religion , however much it may have been hidden for a time by those who ...
... true religion , because natural religion , based on that touch with God through nature , which has been and will always remain the life - spring of all true religion , however much it may have been hidden for a time by those who ...
Page xix
... true praise of God ? To have looked for growth and evolution in history as well as in nature is no blame , and it has proved no loss to the present or to the last century ; and if the veil has as yet been but little withdrawn from the ...
... true praise of God ? To have looked for growth and evolution in history as well as in nature is no blame , and it has proved no loss to the present or to the last century ; and if the veil has as yet been but little withdrawn from the ...
Page xx
... true fact , may turn out different from what we hoped for , may turn out only new rubbish added to the accumulated rubbish of former ages . All this we must be prepared for , but if in the end we can only point to a few of our thoughts ...
... true fact , may turn out different from what we hoped for , may turn out only new rubbish added to the accumulated rubbish of former ages . All this we must be prepared for , but if in the end we can only point to a few of our thoughts ...
Page xxv
... true and felt knowledge ( not mere nominal knowledge ) of the relations of man and of the universe to Him , and of the true foundations of all ethics or morals , being , I say , convinced that this knowledge , when really felt and acted ...
... true and felt knowledge ( not mere nominal knowledge ) of the relations of man and of the universe to Him , and of the true foundations of all ethics or morals , being , I say , convinced that this knowledge , when really felt and acted ...
Page xxviii
... true know- ledge of Him Who is , and there is none and nothing besides Him , in Whom we live and move and have our being , and in Whom all things consist , and of man's real relationship to Him Whom truly to know is life everlasting ...
... true know- ledge of Him Who is , and there is none and nothing besides Him , in Whom we live and move and have our being , and in Whom all things consist , and of man's real relationship to Him Whom truly to know is life everlasting ...
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