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Abso Agnostic Agnosticism already animals apes apprehend asserted atheism authority belief Bible called Christian church cism conceived conception consciousness credulity creed criticism Darwin Darwinian development of religion Divine doctrine doubt edge elements ence essence eternal evidence evolution existence experience fact faith finite Gadarene Swine Heracleitus Herbert Spencer human mind human spirit Hume Huxley Huxley's ical infallible infinite intellect intelligence Kant Knowl Knowledge less ligion Lincoln living logical man's mankind means mechanical ment mental merely metaphysical miracle modern moral Natural Selection natural world ness never objects Old Testament organic Origin of Species personality philosophy primitive Protestantism reality realization reason religion of cult religion of dogma religion of spirit revelation ritual Roman Catholic Church scepticism scientific scientist sects sensations sense soul speculations spiritual religion stage theology theory things thinker thought tion to-day transcend true truth ultimate universe worship
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Page 98 - Truth is within ourselves ; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness...
Page 181 - Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it, and had his being there. Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his World. He said, in this jubilee of sublime emotion, "I am divine. Through me, God acts; through me, speaks. Would...
Page 81 - And what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God ?" If any so-called religion takes away from this great saying of Micah, I think it wantonly mutilates, while, if it adds thereto, I think it obscures, the perfect ideal of religion.
Page 39 - Thus, whatever system of organs be studied, the comparison of their modifications in the ape series leads to one and the same result — that the structural differences which separate Man from the Gorilla and the Chimpanzee are not so great as those which separate the Gorilla from the lower apes.
Page 11 - If he had not so great a stock as some have had who flourished formerly, of knowledge long treasured up, he knew better by far than any man I ever was acquainted with, how to bring together, within a short time, all that was necessary to establish, to illustrate, and to decorate that side of the question he supported.
Page 80 - When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Saviour's condensed statement of the substance of both Law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself,' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.
Page 30 - The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon r The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire: The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness...
Page 78 - Douglas don't care whether slavery is voted up or down, but God cares and humanity cares, and I care, and with God's help, I shall not fail. I may not see the end, but it will come, and I shall be vindicated, and these men will find that they have not read their Bible aright.
Page 51 - I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly.