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On Nature and Grace: A Theological Treatise, Book I, Philosophical Introduction William George Ward No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 360 - Can it be that those mysterious stirrings of heart, and keen emotions, and strange yearnings after we know not what, and awful impressions from we know not whence, should be wrought in us by what is unsubstantial, and comes and goes, and begins and ends in itself? It is not so; it cannot be.
Page 320 - Ye are of- God, little children, and have overcome them : because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Page 46 - ... elles les supposent. Ainsi ces vérités subsistent devant tous les siècles, et devant qu'il y ait eu un entendement humain : et quand tout ce qui se fait par les règles des proportions, c'est-à-dire tout ce que je vois dans la nature, serait détruit, excepté moi, ces règles se conserveraient dans ma pensée; et je verrais clairement qu'elles seraient...
Page 320 - Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have from God ? and ye are not your own ; for ye were bought with a price : glorify God therefore in your body.
Page 320 - We are of God : he that knoweth God heareth us ; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Page 360 - To many men the very names which the science employs are utterly incomprehensible. To speak of an idea or a subject seems to be fanciful or trifling, to speak of the views which it opens upon us to be childish extravagance; yet is it possible that that inexhaustible evolution and disposition of notes, so rich yet so simple, so intricate yet so regulated, so various yet so majestic, should be a mere sound, which is gone and perishes? Can...
Page 45 - Dès que l'idée de ces choses s'est une fois réveillée dans mon esprit, je connais que, soit qu'elles soient ou qu'elles ne soient pas actuellement, c'est ainsi qu'elles doivent être, et qu'il est impossible qu'elles soient d'une autre nature, ou se fassent d'une autre façon. Et pour venir à quelque chose qui nous touche de plus près, j'entends, par ces principes de vérité éternelle, que quand aucun...
Page 338 - Who but these give up home and friends, wealth and ease, good name and liberty of will, for the kingdom of heaven? Where shall we find the image of St. Paul, or St. Peter, or St. John, or of Mary the mother of Mark, or of Philip's daughters, but in those who, whether they remain in seclusion, or are sent over the earth, have calm faces, and sweet plaintive voices, and spare frames, and gentle manners, and hearts weaned from the world...
Page 270 - Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight : but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Page 344 - Cum ergo prandissent, dicit Simoni Petro Jesus: Simon Joannis, diligis me plus his? Dicit ei: Etiam, Domine, tu scis quia amo te.