 It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character, which through all the changes of eighteen centuries has inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love, has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments,...  The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Page 6621877Full view - About this book
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1878 - 672 pages
...and of Morals, has felt himself wholly unable to restrain the following burst of admiration : — " It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character which throughout all the changes of eighteen centuries has inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1869 - 450 pages
...become was a model for imitation, and the admiration it inspired could never deepen into affection. It was reserved for Christianity to present to the...conditions, has been not only the highest pattern of virtue but the strongest incentive to its practice, and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1869 - 446 pages
...become was a model for imitation, and the admiration it inspired could never deepen into affection. It was reserved for Christianity to present to the...conditions, has been not only the highest pattern of virtue but the strongest incentive to its practice, and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - History - 1871 - 552 pages
...striking light the solitary grandeur of the character of Christ as it has been depicted in the Gospels. " It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character which throughout all the changes of eighteen centuries has inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned... | |
 | Charles Adolphus Row - Apologetics - 1872 - 292 pages
...the peculiar might and energy of Christianity, Mr. Lecky writes as follows (vol. ii. p. 8) : — " It was reserved for Christianity to present to the...inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love, and has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments, and conditions ; has not... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1879 - 1092 pages
...of the " History of Modern Rationalism " and of " European Morals." In the latter work he says — It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character which, through the changes of eighteen centuries, has. filled the hearts of men with an impassioned love, and has... | |
 | John Richard T. Eaton - 1873 - 450 pages
...quote yet one other author) " the Platonist exhorted men to imitate God; the Stoic to follow reason. It was reserved for Christianity to present to the...on all ages, nations, temperaments and conditions, which has been not only the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive to its practice,... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - Unitarianism - 1874 - 516 pages
...reference to its theological bearings. * Such writers trace back not to the Hebraism out of which •"Itwas reserved for Christianity to present to the world...capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments and constitutions, Christianity grew, not to the cult us or the creed of .the Catholic Church, not to the... | |
 | Strivings - 1874 - 312 pages
...Lecky, in his History of Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne. With this quotation I will conclude : " It was reserved for Christianity to present to the...inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love, and has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments, and conditions ; has not... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - Apologetics - 1874 - 312 pages
...Lecky, in his History of Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne. With this quotation I will conclude : " It was reserved for Christianity to present to the...inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love, and has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments, and conditions ; has not... | |
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