Scenes and Characters Illustrating Christian Truth: The skeptic, by E.L.C. FollenHenry Ware J. Munroe, 1835 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 32 - Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Seite 132 - And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Seite 90 - Hume proves too much, and therefore proves nothing. It proves too much; for if I am to reject the strongest testimony to miracles because testimony has often deceived me, whilst nature's order has never been found to fail, then I ought to reject a miracle, even if I should see it with my own eyes, and if all my...
Seite 30 - ... blinds our dazzled eyes to the glory of Him who placed it in the firmament. The very perfection of the works of God hides their Creator from his creatures. Do you remember, James, those beautiful lines which the minister quoted in his sermon a few Sundays since from a foreign writer? I think I can repeat them. ' He veils himself in everlasting laws, Which, and not him, the skeptic seeing, exclaims, " Wherefore a God ? The world itself is God.
Seite 95 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Talmud and the Koran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Seite 91 - ... that the credibility of facts, or statements, is to be decided by their accordance with the established order of nature, and by this standard only. Now, if nature comprehended all existences and all powers, this position might be admitted : but if there is a Being higher than nature, the origin of all its powers and motions, and whose character falls under our notice and experience as truly as the creation, then there is an additional standard to which facts and statements are to be referred...
Seite 70 - I think it is very hard that a man should be punished for his opinions. Do you think, sir, that a man should be blamed for what he thinks...
Seite 34 - CHAPTER V. CHARACTERS AND MORAL RELATIONS. RALPH VINCENT had, with all his faults, many good qualities. He was generous, good-natured, and honest; he had rather showy talents and was a general favorite. His father was a rich farmer, and he was his only son; his mother died when he was a child, and his father had only thought of giving him a good school education and keeping him out of mischief, as he used to say, as long as he could. He had early shown a fancy for the printing business, and-his father...
Seite 31 - ... that could be worthy of belief, which were not authorized by the accredited interpreters of their sacred books. Jesus had entirely disappointed them in their conceptions of the Messiah; and what influence could he have had over the mind of a Jew, if he had not been gifted with miraculous powers? " " I have perceived," said James, " that the children's minds are not much affected by the miracles of Jesus.
Seite 70 - your husband continues to use his powers faithfully upon the subject, only taking a fair view of both sides of the question, you need have no fear for the result. He has hitherto looked at only one side; we must now lead him to take a view of the other;" and he promised Alice to take the first good opportunity of conversing with her husband upon the subject.