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... true to my original purpose in compiling this book from my lectures . I In publishing my lectures my aim is a practical one , and there is no reason to conceal it . An age of transition such as ours needs above all else a constant ...
... true to my original purpose in compiling this book from my lectures . I In publishing my lectures my aim is a practical one , and there is no reason to conceal it . An age of transition such as ours needs above all else a constant ...
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... true reverence for that which alone deserves reverence ; and secondly , fidelity to the Christian conscience . I reckon as an essential part of true reverence , the frankest and fullest renunciation of that false reverence for formulæ ...
... true reverence for that which alone deserves reverence ; and secondly , fidelity to the Christian conscience . I reckon as an essential part of true reverence , the frankest and fullest renunciation of that false reverence for formulæ ...
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... true that Christianity is a daughter of the Jewish faith : yet it strikes its roots deep down into a soil which we may call beliefs common to all the religions of antiquity . In that soil the character- istic features of the various ...
... true that Christianity is a daughter of the Jewish faith : yet it strikes its roots deep down into a soil which we may call beliefs common to all the religions of antiquity . In that soil the character- istic features of the various ...
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... true that Jesus , and after Him the theologians Paul and John , just touched upon the thought of an inner necessity , but it was only by the way , and led to no further consequences . The belief in the freedom of man under all ...
... true that Jesus , and after Him the theologians Paul and John , just touched upon the thought of an inner necessity , but it was only by the way , and led to no further consequences . The belief in the freedom of man under all ...
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... true domain of mystery lies in the real inner life of the soul , in the unconscious with its enigmatic utterances . The miraculous itself is con- tained in every human being , and can manifest itself suddenly in ecstatic conditions ...
... true domain of mystery lies in the real inner life of the soul , in the unconscious with its enigmatic utterances . The miraculous itself is con- tained in every human being , and can manifest itself suddenly in ecstatic conditions ...
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Page 383 - He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.
Page 172 - Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
Page 278 - I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me : and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Page 160 - Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 337 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord?
Page 160 - when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 241 - But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.
Page 285 - For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
Page 171 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Page 170 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.